Abigail

“You're insane!"
"I won't argue that point.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“I detected instantly that she didn’t like me. It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her. Feely says that there is a broken telephone connection between men and women, and we can never know which of us rang off. With a boy you never know whether he’s smitten or gagging, but with a girl you can tell in the first three seconds. Between girls there is a silent and unending flow of invisible signals, like the high frequency wireless messages between the shore and the ships at sea, and this secret flow of dots and dashes was signalling that Mary detesting me.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

“How remarkable it was, she thought, that we managed to anchor ourselves at all in this world, and that we did so by giving ourselves names and linking those names with places and other people.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors