Judith Kerr

“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Carol would not be a bad one to [settle down] with. She's pretty and bright, and maybe this is what love is. She's good company: her interests broaden almost every day. She reads three books to my one, and I read a lot. We talk far into the night. She still doesn't understand the first edition game: Hemingway, she says, reads just as well in a two-bit paperback as he does in a $500 first printing. I can still hear myself lecturing her the first time she said that. Only a fool would read a first edition. Simply having such a book makes life in general and Hemingway in particular go better when you do break out the reading copies. I listened to myself and thought, This woman must think I'm a government-inspected horse's ass. Then I showed her my Faulkners, one with a signature, and I saw her shiver with an almost sexual pleasure as she touched the paper where he signed. Faulkner was her most recent god[.]”
― John Dunning, Booked to Die

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
― M.F.K. Fisher