Olivia "So many books--so little time.""

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets. We dress it in fancy clothes and tell it to behave, and it comes home with its underwear on its head and wearing someone else's socks. As English grows, it lives its own life, and this is right and healthy. Sometimes English does exactly what we think it should; sometimes it goes places we don't like and thrives there in spite of all our worrying. We can tell it to clean itself up and act more like Latin; we can throw tantrums and start learning French instead. But we will never really be the boss of it. And that's why it flourishes.”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

“It’s like everything else. The price of Torahs is higher in Alaska.”
― Stanley Elkin, The Rabbi of Lud

“I decide this: I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I’m not even sure is important to me.”
― Lauren Graham, Someday, Someday, Maybe

“...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.”
― Louis L'Amour, Brionne