Kerry Callaghan

“Yet in fact modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs,”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare. He told them that Jules, with his large head, might be a genius or an idiot. It turned out he was an idiot. He never spoke a word until he was five. Then, one night coming up to supper, he sat down at the table and said “Death.”
― Richard Matheson, The Best of Richard Matheson