Jarod Jelinski

“...we are going to understand all about the difference between people and pieces of paper in a file, and the difference between doing your job and getting jobbed...”
― Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King, Rage

“The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse. Though he does like to talk about social media as a vehicle for constructing and performing identity. Whatever the hell that means.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“In the time of the fair the rate at which men and women killed one another rose sharply throughout the nation but especially in Chicago, where police found themselves without the manpower or expertise to manage the volume. In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. Four a day. Most were prosaic, arising from robbery, argument, or sexual jealousy. Men shot women, women shot men, and children shot one another by accident.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City