Cletus Gotlib

“I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“Read this and thought of you:
Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote.
Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote.
Through good report and through ill report, I wrote.
Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote.
What I wrote it is unnecessary to say.
~ Edgar Allen Poe”
― Poe

“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“When you spend your whole life living in a hole,” he said, “the only way you can go is up.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes