Annie

“At last week's Sunday service, Reverend Pike read a parade from the Gospels in which Jesus and His disciples, having arrived in a village, are invited by a woman into her home. Having made them all comfortable, this woman Martha, retreats into her kitchen to fix them something to eat. And all the while she's cooking and generally seeing to everyone's needs by filling empty glasses and getting second helpings, her sister, Mary is sitting at Jesus's feet.
Eventually, Martha has had enough and she lets her feelings be known. "Lord," she says, "can't you see that my idler of a sister has left me to do all the work? Why don't you tell her to lend me a hand?" Or something to that effect. And Jesus, He replies, "Martha, you are troubled by too many things when only one thing is needful. And it is Mary who has chosen the better way."
Well, I'm sorry. But if you ever needed proof that the Bible was written by a man, there you have it.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“The son of an Okie who hadn't had enough sense to leave Oklahoma back in the thirties, Tommy Ladue was the sort of guy who looked like he was wearing overalls even when he wasn't.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Granted, thirty-odd years ago the job would have still gone to the man, but times change, and I rang Joyce.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“It stands to reason that if we all agreed to let summer vacation last until the equinox, the world would be a much happier place.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway