Sarah

“When you have a smile like that in your back pocket, you learn to use it like a little knife: at just the right moments, when it can do sudden, mortal work.”
― Catherynne M Valente

“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with (the perfect hearer dies years ago).”
― C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

“Any city looks a bit like its mother and father. If you peer closely at New York, you will see that the old girl has Dutch ears and English eyes. London cannot hide her Roman nose -- and Rome has a way of laughing that is awfully Greek.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“Money to Porter was something almost chemical — a volatile substance that reacted in various interesting ways when combined with other substances.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist