Emily

“I love being a poet. It’s the goddamned words I can’t stand.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Peeple of zee wurl, relax”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“When we fall into routines, little one, we start to die, like ice coating the branches of the trees until they break. There is no greater gift from the gods than painful change. Change only hurts when it touches a part of you that has crystallized.”
― Mallory Dunlin, The Changeling and the Dragon