Carolyn

“Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians.
Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'...”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“The truth is, men make terrible pigs.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sadie Smith is what this man and his daughter would know to type in. But Smith isn’t even a name. It’s a placeholder. Smith is Anglo-American for Last Name, which makes me barely googleable, lost in a sea of Smiths.”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

“The planet is shaped by the amazing force of human want, which has changed everything, the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the mountains, the coastlines, the skies, a planet contoured and landscaped by want.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital