Jenn

“Due to the unearthly flatness where a city had been famously incinerated, the events he already called his life were growing inconsiderable before he had practised making them important. This derived from a sense not of proportion but of profound chaos, a welter in which his own lucky little order appeared miraculous but inconsequential; and from a revelation, nearly religious, that the colossal scale of evil could only be matched or countered by some solitary flicker of intense and private humanity.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus

“I couldn't begin to imagine the life that was rolling out ahead of me. But I did understand it would pass over me with the force of a river, and that I needed to pin the water to its banks and hold it still, somehow, to give myself time to know it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“A creature with a big enough head to make a contract should have the sense to make one it can keep.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“He was the kind of man for whom everyday life involved a series of evasions; secrets and hiding were second nature to him, subtle vanishing acts. He valued his privacy so much he didn’t even like being asked how he was.”
― Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed