Kirsti

“The monk in the grip of acedia would find it difficult or impossible to read. Looking away from his book, he might try to distract himself with gossip but would more likely glance in disgust at his surroundings and at his fellow monks. He would feel that things were better somewhere else, that he was wasting his life, that everything was stale and pointless, that he was suffocating.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn’t know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg’s Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. ‘Margaret’s a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know.”
― Margaret Powell, Below Stairs

“I'm not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitch's dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Volume 1

“Being in Aerosmith," Brad Whitford has said, "was like walking into a dogfight and both dogs bite you.”
― Doug Brod, They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll