Andrea

“She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.”
― Paula Marantz Cohen, Jane Austen in Boca

“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you were not going to budge, whether expressing an opinion or an intention. It was a statement, not a question, and the only word in the English language to which it was pointless to respond. If you wanted to end a conversation or an argument "nevertheless" was your word.”
― Brunonia Barry, The Map of True Places

“You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?”
― Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics

“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories.”
― Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening