Julia Wong

“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, A Study in Scarlet

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Science sometimes sees itself as impersonal, as “pure thought', independent of its historical and human origins. It is often taught as if this were the case. But science is a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhoods.”
― Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays