Peter Gehred

“I wish I could explain - and armed with that explanation, somehow excuse, - the seemingly unending, ongoing, relentless, inordinately intense, pathetic fixation I have with my feelings. That wilderness lurking somewhere down south in my bi-solar plexus and, simultaneously, right there in back of my eyes, demanding my attention and eternally taking my emotional temperature. How do I feel? No, really how do I feel? How could I feel? Some other way, surely. By the end of this endless archaeological self-examination, the observer part of your mind doesn't know what it's looking at anymore. Because being both archaeologist and pit is, essentially...don't make me say it...oh fuck. Okay...The pits.”
― Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic

“While in the past the newsreaders would speak in clam voices conveying reassurance and balanced consideration. Now they spoke in shrill tones that created panic in a viewers heart. They created the disaster before it had occurred.”
― Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

“Rhythm matters, mood matters, sense of place matters. All these things we talk about with novels.

And I feel that for history and biography, to accomplish what they should accomplish, they have to pay as much attention to these devices as novels do.”
― Robert A. Caro, Working

“Like many young people, ultimately she saw herself as a completely new creature, a creation that had sprung from no ancient soils.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow