Jennifer

“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world, still understanding how it works; their convictions are malleable, like their bones. Thus, I experience no sudden horrible wrench as my belief is uprooted, but rather a feeling like the right pair of glasses being put in front of my face after some time wearing someone else's.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man.”
― Meljean Brook, Burning Up

“It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.”
― Carolyn Crane, Double Cross