THROWBACK THURSDAY :: Sara Gran

This week in the word nerd notebooks we're heading back to 2011 and Sara Gran's infinitely quotable Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. A few of my favorite passages:

• Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has...
• "In this book," I went on, as if we both weren't crying, "this guy, he says, 'Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you.' He says, 'Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we're wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself.' That's where you get to show who you are."
• Houses are like people, only less annoying.
• Quicksand is a dangerous place to be. We will drown there if we can't get out. But it tricks us. It tricks us into confusing it with safety. At first, it may seem like a solid place to stay. But slowly we're sinking. You will never move forward. Never move back. In quicksand you will slowly sink until you drown. The deeper you let yourself sink, the harder it is to claw yourself out.
• Most people who've been abused as children never hurt a fly. But of all the people who hurt flies, almost all of them have had their wings broken themselves.