MJ

“Each time you leave the cossetted and hygienic world of towns and take yourself into the hills, you go through a series of staged transformations - a kind of gentle descent into squalor - and each time it is as if you have never done it before. At the end of the first day, you feel mildly, self-consciously, grubby; by the second day, disgustingly so; by the third, you are beyond caring; by the fourth, you have forgotten what it is like not to be like this.”
― Bill Bryson

“My moose,” she said in a low voice. “I finally got it. The universe paid me in moose.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“Sometimes our prejudices color our thoughts when we least expect them to. If we can recognize that, and learn from it, we can become better people.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange