Bryn

“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every time you stand in line at the market. FIFTEEN ITEMS OR LESS. Caring passionately about grammar—caring passionately about anything most of humanity doesn’t care about—is like poking a giant hole in your life and letting the wind blow everything around.”
― Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Sharp Literary Romance – Finding Love That Fulfills Head and Heart

“When one’s life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man’s sons.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“This was true magic, the making and unmaking of the world with paper and ink.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic