Laura Jones

“A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm-washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong—and return with help. It was a staggering trust.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan