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Miss X has always been a ditherer
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Moses: God or crowd control?!? — Mary Ann Shaffer

Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Is better to know the truth that live in uncertainty. — Mary Ann Shaffer

The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I never met a man half so true as a dog. — Mary Ann Shaffer

He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. — Mary Ann Shaffer

i have siezed the day, and the night too. -Juliet- — Mary Ann Shaffer

My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper. — Mary Ann Shaffer

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I've read fast - too impatient not to. But I'll go back and start over again - reading more slowly this time, so I can take everything in. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.) — Mary Ann Shaffer

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer

All I could do was scream, "How dare you! What have you DONE?! Put my books back! — Mary Ann Shaffer

Oh dear, I want to nuzzle into my sofa, but I have to get up and put on an evening dress. — Mary Ann Shaffer

He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Redd up the ship! — Mary Ann Shaffer

I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love). — Mary Ann Shaffer

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Grandpa, that's something I never am." I asked him, "What's that?" And he said, "Lonesome in my spirits." Eli to Eben — Mary Ann Shaffer

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I told him that if one had to ask which, it generally meant neither. — Mary Ann Shaffer

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. — Mary Ann Shaffer

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path — Mary Ann Shaffer

I miss the feeling that we understood one another, but I begin to think that was only my delusion all along. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you. — Mary Ann Shaffer

It was not a windy day, my hair always looks like that. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Not even the Germans could ruin the sea. — Mary Ann Shaffer

He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers. — Annie Barrows

What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ] — Mary Ann Shaffer

Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't. — Mary Ann Shaffer

As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here. — Mary Ann Shaffer

On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me. — Mary Ann Shaffer

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing — Mary Ann Shaffer

Jealous of a bitty bird, he was. — Mary Ann Shaffer

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown — Mary Ann Shaffer

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I tried to protest, but Sam turned his back — Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading keeps you from going ga-ga. — Mary Ann Shaffer

My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me — Mary Ann Shaffer

His writings have made me his friend. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I was able to un-stick my tongue from the roof of my mouth after the first two minutes and began to have quite a good time. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Did any of you ever think that along about thet ime the notion of a soul gave out, Freud popped up with the ego to take its place? — Mary Ann Shaffer