Brent

“The house seemed different then, when she was in it, and the strange thing was that I could feel it; if, for example, I had gone to sleep before she returned and I awoke in the middle of the night, I could sense she was there, something in the atmosphere had changed without my being able to put my finger on quite what it was, except to say that it had a reassuring effect.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle: Book 1

“Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinions anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos

“A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle: Book 1

“This was going to be even more annoying than I had anticipated, and I had anticipated a pretty high level of annoyance, maybe as high as 85 percent. Now I was looking at 90 percent, possibly 95 percent.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol