Monica

“It’s a great shame our child-protection duties* don’t extend to vetoing some of the terrible names parents saddle their unfortunate babies with. This morning I delivered little baby Sayton—pronounced “Satan,” as in the king of the underworld. It’s hard to believe he’ll get through his school career unbullied, and yet we merrily wave him off on that journey. (Or maybe he’s actually the devil and I should have just shoved him back in.)”
― Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor – A Brutally Honest Medical Memoir Packed with Dark Humor

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon