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Karen Thompson Walker
“How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?”
Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

Jess Row
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
Jess Row, The Empties

Jasper Fforde
“The safest course was actually the simplest—do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn’t a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

Amy Ellis Nutt
“Lesson number one: “Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with,” he told Spack. “Gender identity is who you go to bed as.”
Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Matt Haig
“She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build”
Matt Haig, The Humans

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