Maria

“He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid in mittens down at Helford, you'll remember that," he said, "and it will have to last you to the end of your days. 'He stole horses,' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“As a first step, let me suggest that the quest for perfection simply must end.”
― Debora L. Spar