Eleanor

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

“You can argue for hours about the Apollonian and the Dionysian, but the dark wins every time so fuck the Beatles, just fuck 'em, perspective-wise.”
― Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days

“Why untidy hair and an inability to make oneself understood should be the hall-mark of genius I have never been able to understand.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

“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