a dog who learned to read

“History is a little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Why start arguing—better this tranquil lullaby of clichés.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter