Bookish People Quotes

“And F. Scott Fitzgerald: The sign of a first-rate intelligence is to be able to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and not have your head explode, he said. Maybe not those words exactly, but something like that.”
― Susan Coll, Bookish People

“It’s a well-known fact that Washington-area drivers are completely inept in the rain.”
― Susan Coll, Bookish People

“Even before today she felt the daily deluge of alarming news related to Russian hackers, nuclear-armed North Koreans, police officers shooting innocent Black children, deranged gunmen popping up like whack-a-moles ambushing schools and holiday parties and church gatherings, people being violently hauled off airplanes, terrorists in Barcelona, melting ice caps, and dying polar bears, and she is on alert, and terrified, about absolutely everything.”
― Susan Coll, Bookish People