Mackenzie

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“Secrets are delicate things. They can fill you up with sweetness and leave you like a cat who has found a particularly fat sparrow to eat and did not get clawed or bitten even once while she was about it. But they can also get stuck inside you, and very slowly boil up your bones for their bitter soup. Then the secret has you, not the other way around.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)”
― Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

“I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making