Patty

“A well-told story, true or not, reminds you that, yes, the world is an exotic and magical place, and yes, it can be yours for a price. Enchantment always has a price--and sometimes the cost is love.”
― N.M. Kelby, White Truffles in Winter

“He was sick of the excuses and the lies. He was tired of the evasions and the untruths, of people refusing to stand up and speak the truth and take responsibility for their own actions. It seemed to him like yet another symptom of the decline of Western civilization; of chaos; and climate change; and environmental disaster; and war; disease; famine; oppression; the eternal slow slide down and down and down. It was entropy, nemesis, apotheosis, imminent apocalypse, and sheer bad manners all rolled into one.

People were not returning their library books on time.”
― Ian Sansom, Mr. Dixon Disappears

“Nine runs to the bad, doomed, insanely hopeful, they pleaded raucously for the impossible.”
― Roger Angell, The Summer Game

“Their union had always seemed a near-perfect balance: strong individuals married together to make a separate entity greater than either of them alone, a mystery unfathomable even to themselves.”
― Erin Hart, Lake of Sorrows