Archie Kell

“During the winter, me and Rowley stored up some snowballs in my freezer so we could have a snowball fight when the weather got warm.”
― Jeff Kinney, Hard Luck

“Yes, I should grow up, and yes, I will, but there’s time for that tomorrow. Today is for living.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“But this story ends when you open the door. It doesn’t matter if you managed to guess which room is mine, which door I closed behind me. You put your hand on the door handle, you knock, it’s all over. End of story. By choosing one, you chose the other, too. Do you understand why? Those two consequences are joined at the hip, they’re Siamese twins. Even if you picked the door with the lady behind it—all questions answered, all explanations given, your life solved for you—it’s still true that you gave the tiger permission to jump. You gave your assent to catastrophe, you invited tragedy and horror to walk right in. You got lucky, that’s all. Mallon”
― Peter Straub, A Dark Matter

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History