Amy

“It’s a funny thing about revolutions: Sometimes, they can begin very subtly. The Naval Reserve Act of 1916 started one not with a bold statement or action, but with an omission. What was omitted was any mention of the fact that you had to be a man to serve active duty in the Navy; by being omitted, it quietly ceased being a fact.”
― Richard Rubin, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

“Popular culture is a wonderful buffet to dine at. But it's easy to overeat.”
― Benyamin Cohen, My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred