Candy Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.”

— Eleanor Brown

“JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)”

— Chris Colfer

“It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

— Laura Kinsale

“I don't know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real substantial hospitable Scotch breakfast, and then went out to a slight…

— Charles Dickens

“She tasted good. Like salt and vinegar chips and Bailey’s Irish cream. Who knew that was such a fucking turn on?”

— Amy Andrews

“shells. “I’m not going to supper at New Clairmont,” says Mirren decisively. “And no breakfast, either. Not this year.” “Why not?” I ask. “I…

— E. Lockhart

“Master Griffin, I would marry my own mother for the excuse to stab my eyes out with her brooches than to see anything under…

— Tiffany Reisz

“I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she…

— Stanley Gazemba

“This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.”

— John Cheever

“Afterwards, we don’t head straight back to work. Instead, we stop at McDonald’s. Kristy gets a Happy Meal. Cora gets like four pies, which…

— Hannah Johnson

“The word spinster, mixed with stifled laughter from the living room, picked her ear like a needle. Will I ever escape the culture of…

— Zoë S. Roy

“Tranquility is the soul of our community.” Not a quarter mile’s distance away, Susanna Finch sat in the lace-curtained parlor of the Queen’s Ruby,…

— Tessa Dare