Jim

“Once in a while I lie there, as the television runs, and I read something wild and ancient from one of several collections of folktales I own. Apples that summon sea maidens, eggs that fulfill any wish, pears that make people grow long noses that fall off again. Then sometimes I get up and don my robe and go out into our quiet neighborhood looking for a magic thread, a magic sword, a magic horse.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

“Never let anyone's darkness provoke you into your own midnight.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life