Quote by Robert B. Parker

“Susan's gotta poker, you know," it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. "I fort- thought all of…

— Terry Pratchett

“To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.”

— Zadie Smith

“...in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Just like that. Like she was ordering fast food, back in the days when there was fast food and you could order it.”

— M R Carey

“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.”

— Cornell Woolrich

“I used to be a butcher. She used to come into my store. Every week I would set apart the best piece of meat…

— Brandon Stanton

“Once you left Easterly, you saw the world was full of these people: ticket sellers, snack bar clerks. They assumed they were better than…

— Wally Lamb

“When he ate out, he ate alone. He didn’t shop”

— David Baldacci

“She watched through a slight mist a party of people who had just come into the restaurant, the movements of arms taking off overcoats,…

— Jean Rhys

“It was astoundingly difficult to woo a lady who thought she was either trying to purchase a chicken or a few tomatoes from her,…

— Colette Moody

“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making sure her…

— Robert B. Parker