Frieda Prideaux

“We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“It is a mysterious thing how cheerful people become in the face of disaster. My father whistled as he boarded up the windows, and my mother from time to time would call to him happily out the back door. She obviously was enjoying the unusual pleasure of having him home on a weekday morning. Tomorrow they might be ruined or dead, today they had each other.”
― Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

“I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb