Toni

“Two more perfect people for each other had never existed. “Sloane is going to be your new nurse.” Before either of them could protest—a thing I knew was coming from the way they both opened their mouths to speak at the same time—I did the one thing I was best at. Talking. “You probably haven’t heard yet, but you got Sloane fired from the library today,” I told Arthur.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“I go all shoogly in a pastry shop, I just take one of everything.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird

“Any idiot could see that what that child needed was space, not some overbearing helicopter mom without a life to call her own. It’s no wonder she went to another state to get away from you. How else was she supposed to escape your endless prattle?”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“Yeah, right,” Mateo interrupted. “Mark Twain was a curmudgeon. Ebenezer Scrooge is a curmudgeon. Arthur McLachlan is Satan’s grandfather. One time, he even managed to eke a tear or two out of Octavia.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club