Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do you start missing everybody.

Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

"...she must seek them abroad..."

"No one who had ever seen Catherine Moorland in her infancy, would have supposed her to be born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother; her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard-and he had never been handsome."

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

"And he had taken Gabriel, too."

"Gabe?" The new child stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered.

The Giver
Lois Lowry

"The strolling woman had been right, he was going the wrong way."

"Strangers on a train. If there was an emergency, would they help one another? (Never overestimate people.)"


When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

"It was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion..."

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen


Growing up I always liked to think of myself as Elizabeth Bennet. In fact, I'm extremely Marianne.