Always Pouting

“The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them.”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said:
"You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down
by the wrath of God! I do not!"
The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice:
"My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work
of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often
fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“Whenever she felt the weight of those bonds, she wished she could take her sharpest knife and cut them free, carve out the part of her that wanted, that cared, that warmed at the feeling”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows