Emma

“The IT department has asked me to stop slapping my computer when it gives me trouble, but for inanimate objects, I’ve always found percussive maintenance to be the most persuasive. I can't exactly Bcc furniture into submission.”
― Kate Prior, The Orc from the Office

“There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“In the hurry through which known and strange things pass, the strange things were sometimes very well known and the known things were often deeply strange.”
― Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

“False things, endings. Sustenance for fools and never what they claim to be.”
― Max Porter, Lanny