Kate Atkinson

“Time is supposed to move forwards.'

'What if I don't like what happens?'

'Then...you change it.”
― Brian Selznick, The Marvels

“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God loves admiration.

You saying God vain? I ast.

Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“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

“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