"Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out."

“I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

“When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.”

“Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.”

Source : Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

“... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak”

“We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.”

“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.”

“Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.”

“Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.”