Always Pouting

“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

“Like a man who pinches himself to make sure he still has feeling, Chimen read to reassure himself that he was still alive.”
― Sasha Abramsky, The House of Twenty Thousand Books

“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

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