Elizabeth Sharp

“Dad and I had only talked about boys once before when he said something about birds and bees and then he told me it was just natural and I asked what was just natural and he said s-e-x and I’d freaked out, run to my room, slammed the door, and watched PBS for three hours just so I could feel wholesome again.”
― Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie: A Novel

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein