Crowgirl

“You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“But before that there’d been summer days in the barn while he rebuilt the Mustang. There’d been John Prine on the radio, the sweet smell of hay baking in the heat, and afternoons filled with her lazy, pointless questions—a never-ending interrogation that was, at turns, tiresome, amusing, and erotic. There’d been her body, tattooed and icy white, with the bony knees and skinny thighs of a long-distance runner. There’d been her breath on his neck.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

“History is just one fucking thing after another.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Father, forgive me—for I know precisely what I’m doing.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood