Laurie Wright

“Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn't drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there's no love there.
Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.”
― Eric Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

“I’m not cute at all. I’m a very cranky person.”
― Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent