Leslie Gott

“if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Complete Leatherstocking Tales: All 5 Books

“To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“Mind Your Own Business.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire