Randa Handler

“If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.”
― Ilie Nastase

“The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.”
― Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights