Jannette Sten

“In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls of course. Boys bring howitzers to class.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Doc

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books.”
― Judith Viorst, What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books