Freida Jaudon

“She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. Since then I have known this moment”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“I guess we all get a little snippy when we're not feeling good.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Punctuation, is? fun!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon