Cooper Baty

“Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can’t tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“She could not have been born gray. Her
color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed
nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking weed, as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice