Marianne

“Two years after Tolkien's The Hobbit was published I read it for the first time. Twenty years later I read it again and experienced just the same feeling of delight and happiness and a quite breathless pleasure. That first time, when I was nine, was also the first time I remember feeling this. It is a sensation known to all lovers of fiction and comes at about page two, when you know it's not only going to be good, but immensely satisfying, enthralling, not to be put down without resentment, drawing inexorably to a conclusion of power and dramatic soundness.”
― Ruth Rendell

“Voilà!” said the artist, in perfect fucking French.”
― Christopher Moore, Noir

“People do blame you for the things they do to you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?”
― C. N. Lester