Kate O'Hanlon

“What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat.

The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Horse

“Here is a book of tongues.
Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.)
Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it.”
― Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Poetry of Gwendolyn Macewen. Selected and Introduced by Margaret Atwood

“One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
― Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town