Julia

“My friend Duncan Idaho is acquiring a new habit. He is learning always to look beyond what he thinks he knows.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine!”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“We do not worship God.
We perceive and attend God.
We learn from God.
With forethought and work,
We shape God.
In the end, we yield to God.
We adapt and endure,
For we are Earthseed
And God is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“As for Olmsted, Burnham was struck by the slightness of his frame, which seemed structurally inefficient to support so massive a skull.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America