Sundry

“Bougainvillea bloomed on their porch like a discarded prom dress.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

“She had always assumed that when she was old, she would have total confidence, finally. But look at her: still uncertain. In many ways she was more uncertain now than she had been as a girl. And often when she heard herself speaking she was appalled at how chirpy she sounded—how empty-headed and superficial, as if she’d somehow fallen into the Mom role in some shallow TV sitcom. What on earth had happened to her?”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein