“That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.”— Sara Sheridan Related Quotes “You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”— Lisa See “The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded slowly out over decades; its throbbing could be heard in the corruption of the schools, periodicals, and universities, in melancholia and insanity among those artists and critics who could still be taken seriously; it raged as untrammeled and amateurish overproduction in all the arts.”— Hermann Hesse “She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.”— Bill Bryson