Sandra Matras

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. ”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants