Laudan

“There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“I believe that in the end truth will conquer”
― John Wycliffe

“His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden