Cayla

“I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."

"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“I don't like cleaning or dusting or cooking or doing dishes, or any of those things," I explained to her. "And I don't usually do it. I find it boring, you see."

"Everyone has to do those things," she said.

"Rich people don't," I pointed out.

Juniper laughed, as she often did at things I said in those early days, but at once became quite serious.

"They miss a lot of fun," she said. "But quite apart from that--keeping yourself clean, preparing the food you are going to eat, clearing it away afterward--that's what life's about, Wise Child. When people forget that, or lose touch with it, then they lose touch with other important things as well."

"Men don't do those things."

"Exactly. Also, as you clean the house up, it gives you time to tidy yourself up inside--you'll see.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.”
― Michelle Knudsen, Evil Librarian