
No One Belongs Here More Than You

I was entirely known and I thought: This is the happiest moment of my life. And with that sentence came tremendous sorrow because nothing was more fleeting than a dance—dance says: joy is only now.
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
You get used to it after a while. Look at the colors. Our creator just has an unbelievable imagination.
Miranda July • It Chooses You
That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes an
... See moreDonna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
