Deborah

“Nobody loses weight eating anyplace with laminated menus.”
― Jacob M. Appel, Scouting for the Reaper

“We discover, often too late to talk to him about it, an episode from his life that a loved one has concealed from you. Has he really hidden it from you? He has forgotten, or more likely, over time, he no longer thinks about it. Or, quite simply, he can't find the words.”
― Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

“[W]hile our souls are meager, nature has surplus. Yet something of the mechanism's subject was indeed dissolved in that silver chloride, flattened then minted as those promiscuous postcards we saw now, which we could not now unsee, for we had accepted unawares a bit of the Canyon each time we saw a photograph of it, and those pieces, filtered and diluted, had accumulated in us, so that we never saw anything for the first time. Perhaps the ugliest of our impulses, to shove the sublime through a pinhole.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus

“Now I know how to make it as a pedophile. Forget lollypops. Antarctic wildlife is the ticket.”
― Jacob M. Appel, Scouting for the Reaper