Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
("The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society")
More Quotes from Mary Ann Shaffer:
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!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
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.
Mary Ann Shaffer
I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.
Mary Ann Shaffer
People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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