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“In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale—a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a “tortoise” would learn that it was basically a fancy type of turtle from hearing about this very race—the hare retreated, understandably, into a substantial period of depression and self-doubt.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The twin scalpels of her stare seem to perform exploratory surgery on his mind, his motives.”
― Dean Koontz, Red Rain

“Men tell stories,” I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. “Women get on with it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale