Amanda Nan Dillon

“You said I looked "okay," which is petty much the same thing as saying, "Well, at least your nipples are covered.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.”
― Eric Van Lustbader, First Daughter

“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine. Rising”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow