Selmin

“He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes...”
― Chris Culver, Just Run

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that."
"Thank you," she said.
"As good as a man's," he added.
"Oh, now you've spoiled it!”
― Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key