Keeley Johnson

“February in Texas is a cold, bitter lady. March is when she loses her virginity.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans

“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come to earth.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.”
― Asne Seirstad, The Bookseller of Kabul