Brittlea Brown

“I had a mother who left when I was a child. I didn’t miss her. Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs, the white marble floor with the little black squares, the snow coming down in glittering sheets in the windows behind her, the windows as wide as a movie screen, the ship in the waves of the grandfather clock rocking the minutes away.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Hello, 911? I’ve been lying awake for an hour each night, reliving a two-second awkward experience I had in front of a casual acquaintance three years ago, for eight months.”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.

“And delight reigned.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.”
― Rumer Godden, The Story of Holly & Ivy