Always Pouting

“We all saw it, and he did the same thing we all did - we pretended it was none of our business and that it would go away on its own. We told ourselves we were just seeing a tiny piece of Agnes's life. And if you only get a small piece of something, it's much easier to convince yourself it's better when you're not around, and then choose to ignore it.”
― Roseanne Cheng, Edge the Bare Garden

“Sometimes the things we believe we hear are really just our own shifting needs.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer That Melted Everything

“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

“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger