Mike LoMonico

“[My] explanation makes such immediate sense that I can give it up only reluctantly, a necessary concession to my physician's expertise. This is the way my students feel, I realize, when I suggest stylistic revisions. They like the sentence the way they wrote it. They defer to my greater knowledge and experience because they must, but they still like the way the original sentence sounded when it had a dangling modifier, and they secretly suspect that my judgment, while generally sound, may be flawed in this instance. And they're a little miffed at my insistence...”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man

“if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it, and ain’t a-going to no more. But”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Love all, trust a few / Do wrong to none.”
― Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

“I felt too hurt. I thought that Othello was kindlier to Desdemona.”
― R.K. Narayan, The Guide