John Gilbert

“I can’t decide that for you. But it’s something to think about.” So I thought about it. I thought about it so much that night that I only got a couple hours of sleep and I was super tired in all my classes the next day. But here’s the problem: I thought about it. I thought about how I have a problem with thinking too much. Leave it to me to think I can solve a thinking problem by thinking.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Life, Loss, and Puffins

“Perhaps one day (...) there will be a safer time, when women could walk the Earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“It was late spring and everything was fragrant and in bloom: the dogwood trees, the dogs themselves, their owners. Big Swiss was a showy white flower in puffed sleeves and linen shorts. Greta, who’d peaked weeks ago, was already wilting and losing her petals.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“THE JOURNEY ENDS, the traveler goes home, the book gets written. The result, the travel narrative, implies that it has fixed the place forever. But that is a meaningless conceit, for time passes, the written-about place keeps changing. All you do as a note-taking traveler is nail down your own vagrant mood on a particular trip. The traveling writer can do no more than approximate a country.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown