Merideth Ranford

“though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The post-Reagan vacuum is doubly curious because Reagan was himself a vacuum (or seems so to this European outsider), an empty stage-set of a personality across which moved cut-out cartoon figures, dragon ladies or demons of the evil empire, manipulated by others far more ambitious than himself. Many people have commented on his complete lack of ideas and his blurring of fiction and reality in his stumbling recall of old movies. But Reagan's real threat is the compelling example he offers to future film actors and media manipulators with presidential ambitions, all too clearly defined ideas and every intention of producing a thousand-year movie out of them.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.”
― Douglas Coupland, Miss Wyoming