Deirdre Conroy

“I can't make any promises... I became a scientist because...it's ike panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold. I- I don't know what I want to do...'
'Journalists work in torrents just as muddy.'
The moon is over the water.
'Do...whatever you can't not do.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“My mother thought, had Caius ever loved a baby boy in the way she loved her baby boy? Had Caius soothed the great singer in those final days, leading her to God? Had Caius ever felt so deeply about a flower or the ocean or life itself: that there was too much of it, nearly? That it was all just too much?”
― Suzanne Scanlon, Promising Young Women

“Everything only connected by "and" and "and.”
― Elizabeth Bishop

“Most cities are nouns, but New York is a verb. What might Beunas Yerbas be, I wonder?'
'A string of adjectives and conjunctions?'
'Or an expletive?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas