Ali Molenaar

“The really strange thing about this is that it was one of the Fog Facts.

That is, it was not a secret. It was known. But it was not known. That is, if you asked a knowledgeable journalist, or political analyst, or a historian, they knew about it. If you yourself went and checked the record, you could find it out. But if you asked the man in the street if President Scott, who loved to have his picture taken among the troops and driving armored vehicles and aboard naval vessels, if you asked if Scott had found a way to evade service in Vietnam, they wouldn't have a clue, and, unless they were anti-Scott already, they wouldn't believe it.

In the information age there is so much information that sorting and focus and giving the appropriate weight to anything have become incredibly difficult. Then some fact, or event, or factoid mysteriously captures the world's attention and there's a media frenzy. Like Clinton and Lewinsky. Like O. J. Simpson. And everybody in the world knows everything about it. On the flip side are the Fog Facts, important things that nobody seems able to focus on any more than the can focus on a single droplet in the mist. They are known, but not known.”
― Larry Beinhart, The Librarian

“Het is in het beklemtonen van dat iets niet erg is, dat het ons niet bang maakt, dat we er niet triest van zijn geworden, dat we vaak net de heftigheid van de ware emotie verraden, ook al geloven we het schimmige zelfbedrog terwijl we het aan het formuleren zijn.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Kom hier dat ik u kus

“They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major.”
― Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

“The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk”
― David Eddings, Enchanters' End Game