Karlie

“I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.”
― John Engman, Temporary Help: Poems

“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air

“Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse, it seemed, with no way out.”
― Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches