Lan Phillippi

“and the horticulturalists really believed that gardening would save the world that agriculture was destroying.”
― Jane Smiley, Moo

“To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom his wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely