Lilly Brenneman

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches.
Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt.
He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds.
I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle