Jerrod Dellaporta

“I brought your topaz silk scarf with me.”
“That’s where it went. I wanted to wear it today, but I couldn’t find it in the closet. Please don’t tell me you like wearing women’s clothes.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Double Cross

“Fascinating to watch the reactions of people suddenly seized by fear. Some can’t take it. They let themselves go to a point of hysteria, then in panic flee to—God knows where. Most take it, with various degrees of courage and coolness. In the lobby tonight: the newspapermen milling around trying to get telephone calls through the one lone operator. Jews excitedly trying to book on the last plane or train. The wildest rumours coming in with every new person that steps through the revolving door from outside, all of us gathering around to listen, believing or disbelieving according to our feelings.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41

“Bunny to be comfortable.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master