Michael Barenbaum

“Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.”
― Rob Thomas, The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line