Mary Havens

“I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The cat is the best anarchist.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work, and that turns out to be the satisfaction of competence,' Dr. Gawande writes. 'It is a deep satisfaction very much like the one that a carpenter experiences in restoring a fragile antique chest...It comes partly from being helpful to others. But it also comes from being technically skilled and able to solve difficult, intricate problems. Your competence gives you a secure sense of identity.”
― Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

“Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View