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“Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by—nothing at all, simply imagination.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Boy Who Followed Ripley

“Most people don't travel anymore. They arrive. Unless you're riding the slow boat. Then you see every mile.”
― Porter Fox, Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Sometimes writing a sentence can be harder than serving one.”
― James Magnuson, Famous Writers I Have Known