Julia S Turner

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“You know what you are?” she said. “You’re a survivor who has nothing to live for.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

“Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was—wasn’t everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind? Philosophers “came to grips” with this problem a long time ago, Dr.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“The other kids at school seemed to carry some inner map of where they were going, who they were becoming, that stabilized them through all the outward transformations, but Richard, the world’s first 6’3” thirteen-year-old, felt as if he’d been cast into the wilderness without so much as a stick of gum.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire