Kat

“Gary asked me to consider what happens when any of us - no matter what age we are - go home to visit our parents at Christmas. It doesn't matter how wise and insightful adult life has made us. "Two days with your parents at Christmas and you'll all just be swatted back to the deepest level of the family pathology.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“I didn't have that many boxes. Most of them were books. I have always been one of those who rhapsodized about the book as a physical object, but having to pack and carry the boxes was enough to make me want to throw over physical books altogether and just live on an e-reader.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“He hemmed and hawed for a minute, then said, "I'm sure you've got plans already, but I wanted you to know, I cleaned out the spare room at the museum last year."
"What?"
"The spare room in the back," he said patiently. "Next to my workshop. I knwo your mom's probably real excited to have you back home" - this was a profound lie, and we both knew it - "but you know, with the gout, I don't get around as easy as I used to right now, and if you wanted to stay here for a bit, I thought I'd offer.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“His life is narrower than the one he once hoped for, but he’s made his peace with that. He understands that narrowing is the natural order of things.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds