Oriole

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

“This is the world as it is. This is where you start.”
― Saul Alinsky

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions