Diane

“She hated people that thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“The student newspaper contains a lot more humor, though most of it is unintentional. Except for the front page (campus news) and the back page (sports), the campus rag contains little but letters to the editor, which I scan first for allusions to myself and next for unusual content, which in the current climate is any subject other than the unholy trinity of insensitivity, sexism, and bigotry, which the self-righteous, though not always literate, letter writers want their readers to know they're against. As a group they seem to believe that high moral indignation offsets and indeed outweighs all deficiencies of punctuation, spelling, grammar, logic, and style. In support of this notion there's only the entire culture.”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man

“...Tell it, I pray thee.
And let me cow'ring stand, and be my touch
The valley's ice: there is a pleasure in it.
Yea, when the cold blood shoots through every vein;
When every pore upon my shrunken skin
A knotted knoll becomes, and to mine ears
Strange inward sounds awake, and to mine eyes
Rush stranger tears, there is a joy in fear.”
― Joanna Baillie, Orra

“Meg felt cold and pulled her battered quilt around her shoulders. She remembered Mrs. O'Keefe calling on all Heaven with its power, and though shudderingly that she would settle for one large, loving dog.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet