Cheryl

“You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain