Nat Gonzalez

“You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“In the Chinese language, do you know what the characters for ‘crisis’ are? ‘Danger’ plus ‘opportunity.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“One of the chief causes that can be assigned for the curiously commonplace character of most of the literature of our age in undoubtedly the decay of lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure. The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray