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“The stories we tell about the past and imagine for the future are mental constructions that birds can do without. Birds live squarely in the present. And at present, although our cats and our windows and our pesticides kill billions of them every year, and although some species, particularly on oceanic islands, have been lost forever, their world is still very much alive. In every corner of the globe, in nests as small as walnuts or as large as haystacks, chicks are pecking through their shells and into the light.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

“Nightwalking men always have a hunger on them [...] They never stop taking and they don't know about enough. They mortgaged their souls away and now they eat and eat and never know how to stop.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

“The line between pleasure and revulsion can seem so very thin, if it even exists at all.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club