Tara

“Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The books show the world not just as it is but as it could be, should be. They connect me to everything that has ever happened and to everyone who has ever lived.”
― M.K. Asante, Buck: A Memoir

“How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate.... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton’s laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle