Kate Atkinson

“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God loves admiration.

You saying God vain? I ast.

Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and they never look at you weird. It's like a rule or something. I figured even in a small town like this, my question wouldn't be the strangest one the librarian had heard. I didn't know if librarians had any sort of official privacy code, but I was counting on confidence. They're not big talkers. It comes from being forced to be quiet all the time.”
― Eileen Cook, Unraveling Isobel

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Those who have aimed at utopia have often been the most effective at unleashing hell on earth.”
― Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good