“Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?” ~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Review: Water for Elephants
Review: The Dispossessed
"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Review: Beloved
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
~ Toni Morrison, Beloved
Review: A Closed and Common Orbit
“If you believe you have control, then you believe you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you… well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right? Every species does this. Does it again and again and again.” ~ Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
Review: Shopgirl
“He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.” ~ Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“All you can do, Rosemary–all any of us can do–is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.” ~ Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Review: Treason’s Shore
“I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.” ~ Sherwood Smith, Treason’s Shore
Review: Origin
“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.” ~Dan Brown, Origin
Review: The Alloy of Law
"'Wayne's a little attached to that hat,' Waxillium said. 'He thinks it's lucky.'
Wayne: 'It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat.'" ~ Brandon Sanderson, Alloy of Law
