"She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

"I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

"If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve."
— David Sedaris

"Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong."
— Russell Baker