Julia

“The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more.”
― Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the most tempting moment.”
― Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

“You are the only variable in the situation you have control over,”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom