Jane

“She knew how to make things look pretty for an evening. But to mend something truly broken? She had serious doubts on that one.”
― Amanda Cox, Between the Sound and Sea

“For most roles the playmaker has to hunt words to put in their mouths. With Falstaff I run alongside him, scratching what he says in my table-book.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens

“I am no man's tool.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens

“Most powerful men, and all critics, secretly hated poets because the poets' ability to deliver the muse's merchandise made them noble as gods. The dismal fools can't imagine what it's like to thank God at the end of an endless night for a short row of words that come vaguely close to what you had hoped to say the day before.”
― Justin Scott, The Sister Queens