Kate Atkinson

“Perhaps the activity of discerning culture—sifting through it to highlight its most worthy and discard its most unredeemable—is as essential as the activity of making culture.”
― Brett McCracken, Gray Matters: Navigating the Space between Legalism and Liberty

“Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.”
― Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good

“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and they never look at you weird. It's like a rule or something. I figured even in a small town like this, my question wouldn't be the strangest one the librarian had heard. I didn't know if librarians had any sort of official privacy code, but I was counting on confidence. They're not big talkers. It comes from being forced to be quiet all the time.”
― Eileen Cook, Unraveling Isobel

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City