Martha

“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

“Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“He knows very well what underlies the compulsive side of his nature; it is the wish to escape that which he can't comprehend, seeking safety in an unbendable estrangement.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries