Kristina

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it. Each story is doused afresh with the same stagnant infusion of lies, so that the “splendid” brew can then be served up to a clueless Volk.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem