Shawn

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.”
― Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility