Pat Donlin

“Even now, three years later, when she opens the drawer beside the stove for an oven mitt, she finds the oven mitts folded. This is because, three years earlier, during an intense game of Scattergories, when the category was Things You Fold and the letter was O, her husband had written oven mitts. “Nobody folds oven mitts,” she scoffed, and refused him his point, forcing him, ever since, to prove it.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs

“Nobody phoned, nobody came and there weren’t any letters.” Parsons seemed proud of his empty life, as if it was evidence of respectability.”
― Ruth Rendell, From Doon With Death

“They are disagreeing, vehemently and enjoyably, about the politics of Malawi, where Gordon has recently been. Gordon advises the ministers of such places on how to manage their economies. ‘Rubbish, Claudia,’ he says. ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’ve never been to the damn place.’ ‘Since when,’ says Claudia, ‘did I depend on personal experience for an informed opinion?’ And they both laugh.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Someone may be sincere, but be sincerely wrong!”
― Steven Webster, Tragedy To Triumph A Marriage Reconciliation Love Story: Closer To God Closer Together