Jennifer

“They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I’d have to agree.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Carnations, peach and lemon and cherry. Too many people (Europeans, really) consider carnations to be nothing but a vulgar American indulgence, but in my opinion, there is no blossom more intricate, more deliciously, thickly, fragrantly lavish, than a carnation.”
― Shana Abe, The Second Mrs. Astor

“Popular film misquotes. “Play it again, Sam”: Casablanca, allegedly, except neither Bogie nor Bergman ever said it. “He’s alive”: Frankenstein doesn’t gender his monster; cruelly, it’s just “It’s alive.” “Elementary, my dear Watson” does crop up in the first Holmes film of the talkie era, but appears nowhere in the Conan Doyle canon.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“The good Lord giveth and He taketh away. No point in trying to shovel water out of a sinking boat with a slotted spoon,”
― Laura Barrow, Call the Canaries Home