"Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can."
- Michelle Franklin
"The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven."
"She deigned to asked me how ice queens reproduce. I grinned, and her mother looked horrified.“We procreate by way of ice cubes, of course. We put them in our nests and let them incubate for the period..."
"A library always housed a trove of undiscovered friendships and forays, and a bookstore, a place where those temporary connections might become a constancy, must always hold a charm over any scholar’s..."
"Astonishing how tea opens the ears."