Julia Hillman

“Then she repeated what God told Cain after he killed Abel: “The blood cries out from the ground.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

“The fabulous and the fantastic—the wildly outlandish lies—were typically questioned by the intellect yet wholly absorbed by the heart. Almost always, mythomaniacs lied to reinforce fragile egos, decorating their lives with unearned grandeur.”
― Tim O'Brien, America Fantastica

“Of course, you’re not going to come straight out and tell the person you love them. They wouldn’t understand. So, to disguise the fact that you’re already hostage to them, you make conversation.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air