Luis Kiester

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

“Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.”
― Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby

“Denunciation in Russia has a long history, going back at least as far as the sixteenth century and the testingly protracted reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533– 84). “Spy or die” was, more or less, the oath you swore. This practice, increasingly institutionalized under the old regime, was a tsarist barbarity that Lenin might have been expected to question.”
― Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

“It wasn’t the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch