Juliana

“All traffic with the brains drowned realm is sorcery: Our bards, salvaging notions from their minds to plant in those of others, where they grow to splendours, else atrocities”
― Alan Moore, From Hell

“No really it's for a man who's thinking of committing suicide he was held hostage and tortured and it haunts him and I thought maybe just maybe The Importance of Being Ernest would do the trick because when my mother feels depressed it cheers her up to walk on the Wilde side.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel

“Anyone who speaks to members of his family knows that sharing a language does not mean you share the rules governing the use of that language.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure