Tyler Bosma

“Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“If people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information from distant places and then the world would be a more peaceful place. He had been perfectly serious. That illusion had lasted from age forty-nine to age sixty-five. And then he had come to think that what people needed, at bottom, was not only information but tales of the remote, the mysterious, dressed up as hard information. And he, like a runner, immobile in his smeared printing apron bringing it to them. Then the listeners would for a small space of time drift away into a healing place like curative waters.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World