Shannon

“The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. Even if we loathe our families, in order to know ourselves, we seem to need to know about them, just as prologue. Not to know is to live with some of the disorientation and anxiety of the amnesiac.”
― Elizabeth Stone, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us

“Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“In crisis, I circled my wagons, more afraid of being disappointed by someone than going it alone.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”
― Mary Norris