Martha

“Grandmother had had to be frugal all her life, and so she had a weakness for extravagance. She watched the basin and the barrels and every crevice in the granite fill with water and overflow. She looked at the mattresses out being aired and the dishes that were washing themselves. She sighed contentedly, and, absorbed in thought, she filled a coffee cup with precious drinking water and poured it over a daisy.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp