Michelle

“Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.”
― Francis Bacon

“To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow...It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer. The brilliant man must trust he is always right even when adrift alone with his conviction.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer

“It wasn't that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same non-commital way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium.”
― William Ritter, Beastly Bones

“It is always in the parts that we cannot fully understand - the holes in a story, the piece missing - where the real truth of the thing lurks...”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer