Lois

“All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow