Julia

“I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun