E.t.

“Our memories of places, much like people, are subject to our own adaptation process. Once the active living is done, and they pass into memory, we assume control of the narrative. We adapt it, sometimes without meaning to. This is, perhaps, the one advantage of death: when people die, they can live on in our memory as we choose, but places continue to exist, to change.”
― Julia Whelan, My Oxford Year

“Things speed up as you circle the drain.”
― Armistead Maupin

“I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects.” In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply “accept” imperfection when it is revealed to us—we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.”
― Ron Perlman, Easy Street: The Hard Way