Joyce

“Like all true eccentrics, he thought other people very odd.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.”
― Ruth Rendell, The Water's Lovely

“She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.”
― Ruth Rendell

“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone