Emily

“Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.”
― Enid Blyton, The River of Adventure

“We're told that wild animals don't murder one another, only people do. In the animal kingdom there is supposedly an "I won't kill you if you don't kill me" arrangement between members of the same species. Aggression is all bluff and ritual, for nobody wants to get seriously hurt. I was thinking about a wild dog named Wodan tonight. Maybe the Falcon males hadn't meant to kill him. But I just saw murder today for sure. Animals kill their own kind, and they do it on purpose.”
― George Frame, Swift and Enduring: 2

“A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.”
― Timothy Zahn, Deadman Switch

“While the desire to pick the eyes out of the potato of life is understandable, it is not achievable.”
― Aaron B. Wildavsky, Searching for Safety