A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
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Porcelain Gods
I'm not holding your hair while you pray to the porcelain Gods. Ky (Starting from Scratch by Lane Hayes)
Bookcase Maketh Man
A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll need to know about him.Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
People’s speciality
People are always gonna talk, it's their specialty.Theodore Finch, All The Bright Places
When you know, you know
No Tom, you can't fall in love at first sight, I did.Jez Morrow, Force of Law
Night & day
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Modern triviality
A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting,Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
A gentleman’s veneer
The sophistication of a gentleman is always a veneer.Count Dracula - Dracula (2020)
Howard My Dear Friend
"I don’t move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it’s become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log."The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Packs a Punch
"She shows him the needle used for the shot to numb him. It’s very tiny, hardly wider than a human hair. Like a mosquito bite, the doctor says. A mosquito that must be the size of a bird bites down hard on the back of his neck."The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Worn Out Spines 