This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising

This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn’t – that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

–
Steven Moffat

It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict

It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.

–
Lauren Oliver,

Panic

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with. – Fannie Flagg,

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

–
Fannie Flagg,

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe