MsPink

“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?”
― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge

“As I’ve mentioned, I am an only child. This makes me a member of the worldwide super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist club. And let me emphasize: afraid of conflict. Since I had no siblings to routinely challenge/hit me and equally no interest in playing sports, I had grown up without any experience in conflict. I therefore had no reason to imagine that confrontation of any kind, ranging from fighting to kissing, was not probably fatal.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“There are ruins, steeped in shadow, and a bloodred sun going down in turmoil behind distant hills. Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict’s fingers through the trees that line the street.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“My own favorite Bierce bon mot: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright