Mary Patterson Thornburg

“His own mortality suddenly whispered through his bones like a cold draft under a door.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“You didn’t stay in academia if you didn’t love your topic. That passion was the only thing that made it worthwhile putting up with the rest of the crap.”
― Jeevani Charika, A Convenient Marriage

“The true antagonist of The Masque of the Red Death was the masque itself – the display of wealth and greed and privilege that allows the few to lock themselves away from the plight of the many.”
― April White, Death's Door