Rickaby Boot Quotes

#1. Sam inquired in a low voice, "You don't like heights?"
Caleb shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and replied, "Maybe it isn't so much a fear of heights as it is a fear of plummeting to my death.

Katie Lynn Johnson

#2. Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

Susan Isaacs

#3. Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

W. H. Auden

#4. Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don't heal, they die.

Fredrik Backman

#5. When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

Gaston Leroux

#6. What's so bad about addiction? I can't remember. Isn't it something about giving up your freedom? Isn't freedom an illusion?

Jeffrey Steingarten