Ian Martin

“But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Wine, on the other hand, is like religion: it’s mysterious, sometimes literally opaque, and there are too many kinds of it. You never really know if a particular wine is good or bad; you just have to take it on faith from some judgy wine priest, an initiate to its mysteries. And wine is also like religion because the people who really get into it tend to be fucking unbearable.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“My mom? When I was little, she used to do this thing at the movie theater where she would ask for an extra cup for water, but then she would fill it with butter from that li’l pump thing instead. And then when we got to the middle of the popcorn bag, we’d pour it in, and it was like a li’l butter refresher midway through.”
― Kiley Reid, Come and Get It