Liz Dean

“Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.”
― Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Beulah has a husband?'
I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.”
― Bill Bryson