Cortney Latch

“And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret

“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
― Ursula Hegi, Children and Fire

“A Guards regiment, eh, Comrade Colonel? These tit-sucking children could not guard a Turkish whorehouse; much less do anything worthwhile inside of it!”

While commenting on how unprepared his troops are. -Alekseyev”
― Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising