“Sometimes things go wrong, and life seems pointless.”
(Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World, ©2008 Overlook Press)
“When Cortes’s first shipment of booty arrived in Spain, it caused a sensation.”
ha
(A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield, a book about cochineal that I started reading months ago and will probably never finish because after 4 and a half years of college I am incapable of reading nonfiction for pleasure)
“Are they not perhaps -DECEPTIONS?” -That they PLEASE- him who has them, and him who enjoys their fruit, and also the mere spectator -that is still no argument in their FAVOUR but just calls for caution.
(Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche)
“‘Good night, Dad,’ he would tell him. (Saville- David Storey)
Oh. my. God.
“The straw knight jousts better than that one.” (Clash of Kings -GRRM)
