Mrs. Read

“The conservatism of which Gallagher was doubtless a disciple was not a proper philosophy. It was a bad mood.”
― Stephen King, Flight or Fright

“Every known religion,” Murch went on, shucking out of his coat, “has some big-deal event or celebration or thing in December, and every known ethnic, too, and for every known religion and every known ethnic, there’s three other blocks of stores on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn that has everything especially for them, and in December on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, every known religion and every known ethnic is shopping, and not one in a million of those people, that came here from thousands of places that you don’t even know about, ever learned how to drive.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bad News

“He was accompanied by something having the outward aspect of a dog.
"Blandings Castle”
― P. G. Wodehouse

“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.”
― Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders