Crystal

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.”
― Laura Lippman, The Sugar House

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
― Joseph Addison