D.J. Mitchell

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You should look, but you should also see. You should pay attention, render creation it’s due.”
― Robert Clark

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing