Valorie Lauterbach

“Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Well, you just catch me where I go wrong,” I shoot back, “but a Harvard education hasn’t done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.”
― Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness