Steve Miller

“Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.”
― Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?

“There was something animated in his eyes, like pond life.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.”
― Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?

“She kept coming back like a sleeper jolting against him in a railway carriage.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway