Gail

“A kindly courtesy does at least save one’s feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Say hi to your mom?" HAHAHAHAHAH”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“I have never understood why an intoxicated man feels the climax of insult is to hurl at you your name. Perhaps because he knows it is the one charge you cannot deny. But invariably before you escape, as though assured the words will cover your retreat with shame, he throws at you your full title.”
― Richard Harding Davis, Once Upon A Time

“You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.”
― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop