Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames. — Cathleen Schine Cliffs Copy Share Image
“Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her… — Cathleen Schine Time Copy Share Image
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. — Cathleen Schine Family Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Actually Copy Share Image
a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean… — Cathleen Schine All that remains Copy Share Image
“Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might… — Cathleen Schine Fashion Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Able Copy Share Image
Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. — Cathleen Schine Eagle eye Copy Share Image
A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. — Cathleen Schine I think Copy Share Image
I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't… — Cathleen Schine Dates Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Alphabet Copy Share Image
'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. — Cathleen Schine Deceptive Copy Share Image
I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than… — Cathleen Schine Bed Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls.” — Cathleen Schine Life Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine About Copy Share Image
“If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness… — Cathleen Schine Good thing Copy Share Image
“But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.” — Cathleen Schine Books Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Adventure Copy Share Image
“Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.” — Cathleen Schine Air force Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine After Copy Share Image
