Colleen

“In the midst of such rigorous and demanding splendor, who will remember Bob?”
― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Thus I think of you: you will go forth from these walls, but you will sojourn in the world like a monk. You will have many opponents, but your very enemies will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but through them you will be happy, and you will bless life and cause others to bless it--which is the most important thing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But in the attempt, Rex said, in trying to drag something across the river from the murk of history into our time, into our language: that was, he said, the best kind of fool's errand.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land