Amanda Roerden

“The value of their money was imaginary. Like the nature of the universe itself, the desirability of their American dollars and yen was all in people’s heads.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. That cumbersome computer could hold so many contradictory opinions on so many different subjects all at once, and switch from one opinion or subject to another one so quickly, that a discussion between a husband and wife under stress could end up like a fight between blindfolded people wearing roller skates.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“If you can’t learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect

“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail