Chris

“I knew that tune, but I couldn't remember it. It hovered on the edge of my mind. I tried to grab it, but you can't just grab your memories. You have to pretend not to pay attention to them, which makes them mad. You have to trick them into sneaking up on you from behind.”
― Franny Billingsley, The Robber Girl

“Do you fall in love with someone because you understand them? Not at nineteen. It's their otherness that draws you in. At nineteen you're collecting people. Trying on different ways of being.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“All books of philosophy end up mentioning death, which is one of the reasons that many people do not like reading books of philosophy, just as many people do not like to leave their beds at night to sneak out of the house. I mentioned this book to another author I will not identify, and she said, "Oh, Mr. Snicket, who would want to read such a thing?" I know exactly what she means. If you enter a library looking for a particularly quiet place to read, head straight for the philosophy section. Because no one likes to read philosophy, no one will be there, and you will be undisturbed to read, to write or just to think and keep watch, as I do and have always done.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Kind people were all well and good, but you simply *had* to respect a kind person with a hidden well of wickedness inside him.”
― Heather Fawcett, The School Between Winter and Fairyland