Chance Beaver

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Xavi never did see the end of the Iraq War; he died at the peak of the pandemonium there, though he’d stopped caring, having receded from the world in stages: aware of just the hospice, then just his room, then his bed, then his body, then nothing.”
― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

“I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.”
― david wong