Lynn

“[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”
― Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.”
― Anthony Trollope, Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

“I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves stories not just, in Joan Didion's phrase, in order to live, but in order to live with one another.”
― Brian Hall