Erica

“The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.”
― Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

“It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.”
― Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes

“...meaning his stuffed bear who was as real to him as his mother or me. Or else as imaginary.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage

“But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.”
― Alan Bennett , The Uncommon Reader