Betty

“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“No really. What exactly did you do today, Jenny? Quantify it for me."
"It's not quantifiable. There aren't even metrics for the shit I do.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader