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sun-warmed paperbacks and iced coffee awaited her. - Jeffrey...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:13:34 -0400

sun-warmed paperbacks and iced coffee awaited her. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

and the sense she had of herself, then and now, as being the one...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:11:17 -0400

and the sense she had of herself, then and now, as being the one in a troop of girls a writer might write a book about. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

There are crappy little apartments in New Jersey and New Haven...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:09:28 -0400

There are crappy little apartments in New Jersey and New Haven where two studious people could be studious together. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

You think you are not a vain person. You are maybe not so much...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:02:00 -0400

You think you are not a vain person. You are maybe not so much into your body. But you are probably more vain about how intelligent you are. Or how good you are. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:59:00 -0400

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

Oh no, I am not dancing to “You Can Leave Your Hat...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Oh no, I am not dancing to “You Can Leave Your Hat On”. - John Wells, The West Wing

She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:59:00 -0400

She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

The coffee was hot, and lifesavingly good. - Jeffrey...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:57:00 -0400

The coffee was hot, and lifesavingly good. - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

This isn’t a Broadway show, Josh, we don’t just...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

This isn’t a Broadway show, Josh, we don’t just close it down after a successful eight-year run. - Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. The West Wing

I love her. I love her mind, I love her shoes. - Debora...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:14:00 -0400

I love her. I love her mind, I love her shoes. - Debora Cahn, The West Wing

At the end of an evening with friends he was always exhausted. -...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:32:00 -0400

At the end of an evening with friends he was always exhausted. - Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend

You know who are the lucky ones? The Mary Agneses of the world....

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:29:00 -0400

You know who are the lucky ones? The Mary Agneses of the world. Mary Agnes has her whole life figured out: get married next June, save her money, plod along in her job, never look to life to give her anything more. She’s the poor little product of training and ignorance and habit, and she’s smarter than any of you. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

Every girl is an authority about her own life. - Rona Jaffe, The...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:33:00 -0400

Every girl is an authority about her own life. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

They’re all college girls with good educational...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:32:00 -0400

They’re all college girls with good educational backgrounds and no experience and they’re willing to work for practically nothing. - Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:22:00 -0400

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn’t behave as he would have done in a book? - Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

This last isn’t something I actually saw, but what you end...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:20:55 -0400

This last isn’t something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed. - Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

In any crisis, large or small, she cooked apples as soon as she...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:39:00 -0400

In any crisis, large or small, she cooked apples as soon as she could because the sound and the odor soothed her. - Romulus Linney, Heathen Valley

He knew that this was a dream, and that unless he could work out...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:24:00 -0500

He knew that this was a dream, and that unless he could work out the secret of how to remain then he’d soon be pulled out of it and back into the waking world. - Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

She might have a rational mind, but no one has a rational soul....

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:14:00 -0500

She might have a rational mind, but no one has a rational soul. - Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

Tell your troubles to a man, and to the best of his ability...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:51:00 -0500

Tell your troubles to a man, and to the best of his ability he’d advise you how to fix them. Complain at that, and you’d bewilder him. Why seek advice, only in order to reject it? What, otherwise, could have been the point of the conversation? - Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective