Voracious

“One moment you can say the words 'I am'. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.”
― Lynne Truss

“At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary

“How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.”
― Paul Broks

“Getting jobs is like winning domestic arguments on a grand scale, and then getting paid for it.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Folded Clock: A Diary