Allie

“Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it will rain? Good bones, good bones, I coax, wondering how to reward them; if they will sit up for me, beg, roll over, do one more trick, once more.

There. We're at the top. Good bones! Good bones! Keep on going.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders

“If the stock market exists, so must previous lives.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders