Jarrod

“The story of the world is not the story of coup’s and revolution’s, it is the story of lost keys and burnt coffee and a sleeping child in your arms. History is the untallied sum of a million everyday moments.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“Her sobs grew worse, more bitter, until finally I bent and kissed her soft neck and cheeks. Winter plums. Plums from an enchanted wood where the fruit never falls from the boughs. Where the flowers never wither and die.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Pendergast thought for a moment. Finally, his silvery eyes turned to her. “Failure is always useful.”

“A nice thought. But personally? I think failure sucks.” Gladstone slumped down in her chair, trying to get comfortable. After so many hours, it was difficult.

“The question failure asks is: what don’t we know that we don’t know?”

“Whoa, man,” Lam said. “That’s deep.”
― Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Crooked River

“Zora thought that human beings would be a lot better off if they could only make up their minds to go around on four legs”
― Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full