She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

It isn't every day an ex decides to haunt us.

A heart full of bitterness is a life full of sorrows.

A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.