Elyse

“I think,” he says at last, “that it is a great pity she will not trust in me.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

“And the sum of what he wanted to get said was that each man was a Sacred Universe in himself and at the same time, inextricably, a noisome garbage pail whose bottom had rotted out and was poisoning the garden air and needed to be got rid of posthaste. That these two were not only inextricable, but were actually one and the same. And that therefore there was no Evil; and probably no Good; only Growth, only change, and the pain of change, and the ecstasies of that pain, to embrace. And all of which every single one each in his own way tried so hard to shy away from. And most of all that people—and their institutions—were not nearly so important to the Universe as people and their institutions tried so mightily to have believed.”
― James Jones, Some Came Running

“To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman”
― Nancy Springer

“Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady