Clare

“Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world. Is there any hope? There is only this: The people under discussion tend to do most things by accident.”
― Daniel Pinkwater, Young Adults

“We're more than our mistakes. We're more than what people expect of us.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“The neighbor next door to the ranch where Jimmy Darling stayed had emus. They sometimes got onto the property and wandered around. They were like people, violent and unpredictable, with brains the size of walnuts.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room