Laurie

“Everything’s better if it comes from a long way away. That’s the secret,”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“There are different ways of understanding the universe, and you learn nothing by running an experiment if a spell or a sculpture is what’s needed. And there are things we’ll never understand because we don’t have the time, or the right sorts of minds.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide

“Do you understand?” Lincoln asked him. “If you’re in a relationship with someone, if you let yourself be vulnerable, you can get hurt.” “I know.” Lincoln’s expression was dubious. But Sebastian did understand. He got it. If he was with Abby, if he let himself love her, and if, somehow, she loved him, she would have his heart in her hands, every day. He would be giving her power to wound him, to hurt him, to make him not want to live. To leach all the color from the world; to steal all the savor from food; to turn minutes to hours and hours to days and the rest of his life into a painfully slow slog to its inevitable end. He shook his head in confusion… and admiration. How had Lincoln done it? How did anyone? “It’s scary,” he finally said. “But worth it,” said Lincoln. “If it works, if you find your person, everything you suffer is worth it.”
― Jennifer Weiner, The Breakaway

“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the cafe. But anyone who sits in that cafe and dismisses complexity by reveling in their own simplicity is no less pretentious.”
― Michael Perry