Madeleine Gadd

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Quite a place to be, that. When there's no one to tell you not to have another drink.”
― John Niven, Straight White Male

“After a while, however, it had dawned on her that this was life, what was happening right now.”
― Liza Klaussmann, Villa America

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird