Phrodrick

“A novel which does moral injury to a dozen imbeciles, and has bracing results upon a thousand intellects of normal vigor, can justify its existence; and probably a novel was never written by the purest-minded author for which there could not be found some moral invalid or other whom it was capable of harming.
The Profitable Reading of Fiction 1888”
― Thomas Hardy

“Love sucks; true love swallows. As I recall, I’ve always taken every last drop,”
― Suzanne Wright, Carnal Secrets

“He stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk; now, sir, we stand by each other always.”
Sherman on his relationship with Grant”
― Robert L. O'Connell, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

“„What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as child? Variant: What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
― Lin Yutang