Sheila

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fittest”
― Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

“She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar”
― Stewart O'Nan, Emily, Alone