George P.

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
― Mickey Spillane

“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birth-Mark