Sidney Baumfalk

“I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“It's choice that makes us human.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“The people—why the people are magnificent: in their carriages, which are numerous, in their house furniture, which is fine, in their pride and conceit, which are inimitable, in their profaneness, which is intolerable, in the want of principle, which is prevalent, in their Toryism, which is insufferable.”
― David McCullough, 1776

“Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books