Leah Polcar

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.”
― David Foster Wallace

“And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest