Micheline Lighty

“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
― Willa Cather

“Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“Funfunfunfunfun!”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods