"I sometimes think Atticus subjected every crisis of his life to tranquil evaluation behind the pages of the Mobile Register, the Birmingham News and the Montgomery Advertiser." - [Scout Finch], Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (Possibly my favorite first-person narrative ever written. Which is saying A LOT.)
"It may have been 100% truthful, but 100% truthful isn't always the truth. It may have been accurate, but it wasn't fair." - Dick Schaap, sportswriter
"It[the weather] drizzled a little, shone a little, blew a little, and didn't make up its mind until was too late for anyone else to make up theirs." - Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, chapter 26, page 260
"Fanny went to a fashionable school where the young ladies were so busy with their French, German and Italian that there was no time for good English." - Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
"He's now, in baseball lingo, a 'submariner', which is baseball's way of making a guy who throws underhanded sound manly." - Michael Lewis, Moneyball (Nobody else could make a book about the history of advanced statistics a worthwhile enjoyable read. Check it out sometime.)
"It takes a man a lifetime to find out about one particular woman; but if he puts in, say, ten years, industrious and curious, he can acquire the general rudiments of the sex." - O. Henry, "Cupid in a Cafe"
"They're chummy and honest and free and tender and sassy, and they look life straight in the eye." - O. Henry, "Cupid in a Cafe"
"He had a voice like a coyote with bronchitis, but whenever he chose his song he sang it." - O. Henry, "The Caballero's Way"
"'To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same, Elinor, one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.'" - [Laura Welman], Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress (This wasn't one of her best works, but this might be my favorite Christie quote out of everything she wrote. She wrote a ton of really great-to-think-about things in her lifetime, mostly in the books that suffer in terms of plot.)
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale
"'Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways, then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes they brace us up, until perhaps the strain becomes too great, and we break. But King Laugh, he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we beat to go on with our labour, what it might be.'" - [Dr. Van Helsing], Bram Stoker, Dracula (I really don't like this book much, reminds me too much of Dickens. But I really liked that quote.)
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