Virginia

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
― Janet Evanovich

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature