Wednesday

Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to them?
--Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
--Ann Patchett, The Magician's Assistant

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
--Sara Gruen, Water For Elephants

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.
--Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
--Neil Gaiman, Stardust