Gladis Durrett

“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good?”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.”
― George Elliott