Ellie

“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money and status and power, perhaps distracted the mind until it could no longer see—and forgot—the all that is. Or maybe, because of the pace and pressure of that life, sanity depended on blinding oneself to the manifold miracles, astonishments, wonders, and enigmas that comprised the true world.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence