Bickety Bam

“Think a new thought, they sometimes tell themselves. The thoughts you have in orbit are so grandiose and old. Think a new one, a completely fresh unthought one. But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“There were so many things to be done in the process of cleaning up the mess that Caligula had left behind him—nearly four years of misrule—that it makes my head swim even now to think of it.”
― Robert Graves, Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina

“I’ve been so young for so long and so old for longer—so heart-wrinkled and naive all at once.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“Everything but girls doing the hootchie-koo? Or were you thinking of that, too?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63