Constance Lippert

“Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Over the years I’ve come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we’ve done and more to do with who they are.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial. It is not that your Julian chooses solely to concentrate on certain, exalted things; it is that he chooses to ignore others equally as important.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If stupid were fuel, we would never run out.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves