Marybeth

“As long as I live I'll never forget the time he had a bank president pinched, or rather I did, on no evidence whatever except that the fountain pen on his desk was dry. I was never so relieved in my life as when the guy shot himself an hour later.”
― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience