Keri Smith

“When Nola was young, her mother used to tell her that books were like a giant neighborhood where every family was different, and every door was open.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“This wasn’t my first time trying to prepare a meal while dodging the fangs of a dead child who wished me bodily harm.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“I see you have a cat.” “Wrong.” Father Cassidy shook his head and groaned dismally. “A cat has me.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.'
Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about the ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit