Gladis Juniper

“گفت:خیلی میترسم
گفتم:چرا؟
گفت:چون از ته دل خوشحالم...
این جور خوشحالی ترسناک است...
پرسیدم آخر چرا؟!!
و او جواب داد وقتی آدم این جور خوشحال باشد سرنوشت آماده است چیزی را از آدم بگیرد!”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“A freshman congresswoman was demanding an investigation into whoever hacked her Flat Earth support group. It could spell the end of the entire flat planet if the FBI, Homeland Security, and her hometown library couldn’t track the subversive bastards down.”
― William Kely McClung, LOOP

“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan