Perry Schepper

“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set them for maximum delivery. Anything or anyone on the receiving end of these weapons would never survive, even as atoms.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Bye-bye.” Walker flaps his hand up and down.
I think I’ll give him a hug. I do it too fast and knock him down, he bangs on the train table and cries.
“I’m so sorry,” Grandma keeps saying, “my grandson doesn’t — he’s learning about boundaries—”
“No harm done,” says the first man. They go off with the little boy doing one two three whee swinging between them, he’s not crying anymore. Grandma watches them, she’s looking confused.
“Remember,” she says on the way to the white car, “we don’t hug strangers. Even nice ones.”
“Why not?”
“We just don’t, we save our hugs for people we love.”
“I love that boy Walker.”
“Jack, you never saw him before in your life.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real”
― Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph