"From sage on the stage to guide on the side."

“Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.”

“The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!”

“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“Most things get steadily worse.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

“I have a house in Saratoga Springs.”

“Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

“I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.”

“I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.”