Jessica

“For the first time I understood why people come back from Alaska with fifty pictures of glaciers or return from a honeymoon in Tahiti with fifty pictures of the same sunset. The world is so beautiful in these places, it is impossible to register that there will be more, more, more. Surely this is it. Negotiate with your ailing camera battery. How can it not stay alive for this? How can you believe that twenty minutes from now there will be an even taller forest, an even wider waterfall? We are only as good as our most extreme experiences.”
― Sloane Crosley

“Come and have a look at this."
I didn't want to have a look at anything. I went anyway. It's always better to understand than it is to be left sitting in the dark; it's always better to have answers, even when those answers lead to fresh questions.”
― Mira Grant, Parasite

“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

“The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, refusing to be torn down.”
― Sloane Crosley, How Did You Get This Number: Essays