Justin Ulmer

“Merry he could be, and kindly to the young and simple, and yet quick at times to sharp speech and the rebuking of folly; but he was not proud, and sought neither power nor praise, and thus far and wide he was beloved among all those that were not themselves proud.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

“Now is the autumn of our ennui.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common passage.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan