Abigail Allison

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

“It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room