Sally Anne

“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs”
― Pascal Garnier

“Innocence is a temporary, maybe even an unreal, condition. Destined to die.

Innocence lost is supposed to be experience gained, and therefore not a bad trade. "The fortunate fall" as Professor Youngblood taught us in Milton 3111. But what if innocence is never lost, never forfeited Then it can't rise to the edifying abstraction of 'experience.”
― Patricia Hampl, The Florist's Daughter

“They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space”
― Pascal Garnier, Too Close to the Edge

“I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.”
― Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own