Pete Perl

“Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
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― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

They didn't get married after all.”
― Robert Munsch

“She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man’s experience is.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia