Donnette Tapper

“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism,
not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that
gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled
ice cream.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!’ I said with surprising vehemence. ‘You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.”
― Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man

“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.”
― Kathy Acker, In Memoriam to Identity