Carolyn

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“Such questions were a recent habit Ruby had developed. She seemed to delight in demonstrating how disoriented Ada was in the world. As they walked by the creek one day she had asked, What's the course of that water? Where does it come from and what does it run into? Another day she had said, Name me four plants on that hillside that in a pinch you could eat. How many days to the next new moon? Name two things blooming now, and two things fruiting.

Ada did not yet have those answers, but she could feel them coming, and Ruby was her principal text.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“There are a great many buttocks in this room. I am no longer used to them.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray