Kip Heppel

“He will be eighteen in January, but he looks younger than that, and vulnerable; yet older at the same time. Tired. His face is drawn. He has an urge to shield him, but how? There is no way. No way at all.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“He seemed very low-spirited; I knew that by his voice. I believe we horses can tell more by the voice than many men can.”
― Anna Sewell, BLACK BEAUTY

“And he thought about the edge between the ninety percent and the ten percent.
Sometimes that edge was cunning, and sometimes it was kind. Sometimes it was shabby. And sometimes it was heroic.
But it was always mysterious.
Definitely.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World