Tiffany S

“He stares back at her with a gaze so flat and stripped of emotion it would look weird on a Ken doll.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies

“The first thing he needed was a backpack. He chose the largest, not the cheapest. Eight-gallon capacity. Sixty bucks. He had $160 in cash and needed to keep $50 for cab fare. No way did he want any of these purchases showing up on his bank account. Next on his list was a roll of trash bags, a carton of disposable latex gloves, and two three-gallon bottles of strong bleach. A hooded sweater, jeans, underwear, socks, and sneakers. He put all of it in the backpack, paid in cash.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Kill for Me, Kill for You

“The algorithms can’t do everything. But if they can make us more polarized, more angry, and more hateful, surely they can do the opposite of that. There is no “neutral” anymore. There is no leaving things as they would have been before the invention of the internet. Our minds have already learned how to interact with the algorithms and we are part of it.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“One rule my mother taught me by example was that a woman does herself a favor by saying very little. I often thought her aloof in conversation, especially with the workhands who ate at our table. But I came to understand that she, like I, like women throughout the ages, knew the value of employing silence as a guard dog to her truth. By showing on the surface only a small fraction of her interior, a woman gave men less to plunder.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River