Shelley Sackier > Shelley's Quotes

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility