Mitsue Scolnik

“He started every entry with I got up. It meant, I hate this school. When he wrote I do not like porridge, that was actually true, but porridge was his code-word for Simon Silverson. Simon was porridge at breakfast, potatoes at lunch, and bread at tea. All the other other he hated had code-words too. Dan Smith was cornflakes, cabbage, and butter. Theresa was milk.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week

“Flak accounted for far more air crew casualties than German fighters and took down more American planes than the fighters.”
― Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.”
― Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev: A Novel