Daniel Thomas Daly

“Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
― Brigid Brophy

“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.”
― Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables