Alan Quays

“She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.”
― Tove Jansson

“I feel like that now: tired of the Me I've always been, tired of making the same mistakes, repetitively stumbling after the same small ego strokes, being caught in the same loops of anxiety and defensiveness. At the end of my life, I know I won't be wishing I'd held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me. So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“She said that anything as big as the bridges over the Platte and the Missouri reconciled her. And it's what goes on in the world that reconciles me.”
― Willa Cather

“The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.”
― Philip Larkin