Genesis Kinna

“Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.”
― Truman Capote