Julienne Dool

“Why am I always the nerd at the party? I am in my thirties and by now I should at least know how to pretend.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

“He left Molie’s at ten past midnight, twelve hundred New Dollars lighter. The pawnbroker had also sold him a limited but fairly effective disguise: gray hair, spectacles, mouth wadding, plastic buck-teeth which subtly transfigured his lip line. “Give yourself a little limp, too,” Molie advised. “Not a big attention-getter. Just a little one. Remember, you have the power to cloud men’s minds, if you use it. Don’t remember that line, do ya?” Richards didn’t.”
― Richard Bachman, The Running Man

“Because he was an asshole. I’m not sayin’ nothin’ I wouldn’t say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves