Barbara

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.”
― Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“He’s sick.” “What with?” “Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.”
― Rex Stout, The Silent Speaker