Tim The Enchanter

“He had often thought of his loneliness, for example, as a condition which testified to his superiority. But people who were not superior were, nevertheless, extremely lonely—and unable to break out of their solitude precisely because they had no equipment with which to enter it. His own loneliness, magnified so many million times, made the night air colder. He remembered to what excesses, into what traps and nightmares, his loneliness had driven him; and he wondered where such a violent emptiness might drive an entire city.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.”
― M. L. STEADMAN

“The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“The lesson here is that a giant cupcake tattoo is typically an indication of two things: (1) Sister go her hands on some crystal meth, and (2) Sister smoked that crystal meth and kept smoking it until she had been awake for seven days and then stumbled into a tattoo parlor with a really bad idea that she had quickly sketched on a napkin from Carl's Jr.”
― Laurie Notaro, The Potty Mouth at the Table