Daniel Parker

“worrying, Potter! Don’t stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good!”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Jean-Louis Gassée, Steve’s former Apple nemesis who had segued into venture capital, puts it bluntly: “The iPhone was crippled when it first came out.”
― Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

“Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life. He said that sin was about the most sinful thing he could think of, and no one who sinned could be a success, and blessed was he who sat in the seat of the scornful; in short, he repeated his own version of everything they had heard for the past three nights.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“They get this little nubbin of a penis,” Dr. Karpman said. And no one, he said, likes having a nubbin.”
― Sarah Varney, XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life