Bob Godden

“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“The world’s fine, Ronnie. It’s us that’s fucked up,” he said.”
― S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

“Technology, as he saw it, had finally succeeded in shrinking the globe, so much so that every news story felt dangerous and personal, every war a threat to his family, every firestorm, hurricane, and melting ice cap a local disaster, the seas boiling up around them, every cynical political and legal maneuver part of the same rotten fabric—and half the country somehow seeing it exactly the opposite way.”
― Jess Walter, So Far Gone

“You must know that without you there is nothing left in my life, and suffering with you is the greatest possible happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace