Joy Bishop

“He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“Too many people have smiles that don’t mean what a smile is supposed to mean. Their smiles are often cruel and mocking, like how a bully’s grin is the same as a fist.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“You know, I never realized the end of the world would be kept to such a tight, regimented TV Guide schedule.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places