Dana

“Metaphors help you boil down the complications and ambiguities of your too-long life into a picture book. They help you lie to yourself”
― Olen Steinhauer, Victory Square

“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

“She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong.”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories