Phyllis

“Janine smiles. “Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don’t tell.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.”
― Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

“People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.”
― Diane Setterfield

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale