Sam Roberts

“The name of Anne Elliot,” said he, “has long had an interesting sound to me. Very long has it possessed a charm over my fancy; and, if I dared, I would breathe my wishes that the name might never change.”6”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Instead of getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die yourself.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“When you’re twenty-four,” Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club