Jennifer

“Wasn’t it a puzzle? I’d grown up among peasants, yet it took a great house to teach me hunger.”
― Deborah Noyes, The Ghosts of Kerfol

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird