Elizabeth Meadows

“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.”
― L. M. Montgomery

“This is the thing about the service industry, you can get trained to be slick and hospitable in any situation and it serves you well the rest of your life. Once you figure out that everything is performance and you bow to that, learn to modulate, you can dissociate from the mothership of yourself like an astronaut floating in space.”
― Merritt Tierce

“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice--they all make fine fuel.”
― Edna Ferber