Amanda

“Hockstetter had risen several floors past his level of incompetency, a feat more possible in the federal bureaucracy than elsewhere.”
― Stephen King, Firestarter

“Things aren’t that simple,” said Tiffany. “They are if we want them to be,” said Vid. He swept up the final shards of glass and stood. “You’re getting yourself all worked up over nothing. You’re finding catastrophes.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don’t want to be seen, and has got so good at not seeing that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch