Mark Jay

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“It seemed to him that people must pass through each other’s lives all the time, touch them, be touched by them. Leave something behind, maybe, like a star that fell – you became a memory.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

“Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? I balled up the letter and threw it in the trash.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility