Marymodavis

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed