Reta

“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.”
― Lee Smith

“Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.”
― Robert Morgan

“As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn