Eleanor

“This day will go down in history!' said Jones.

'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“We're Englishmen. For us the road always goes home again.”
― James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time

“God has a dream for me? I say. I love that idea. It sounds like a Disney movie.

I know, Margaret says. Her pale round face opens up. Everybody uses the phrase God's will or plan. That has a neo-Nazi ring to it.

I like the Disney version.

I feel you, she says, and I sit for a minute silently disbelieving she's a nun. She adjusts her heavy glasses, and her eyes once again magnify.

Let's eat a cookie and pray for each other's disordered attachments, she says. Mine involves pride and cookies.

Mine, I say, involves pride and good-looking men.

Together we bow our heads.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“Mind you do think. Don't just take out your feelings and look at them, which is what passes for thought with most of us pitiful, self-centred creatures. Look at the question from everyone's point of view.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells