B.J. Chute > Quotes

“Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.”
― B. J. Chute

“Half the troubles of the world come from looking at other folks in your own mirror.”
― B.J. Chute, The Moon and the Thorn

“Charles had not lived. So lately dead that the pain was still the pain of separation and not of total absence, his memory lay against her heart.”
― B.J. Chute, The Moon and the Thorn