“To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?”

Source: Battle of Angels

Bk. I, Ch. 2
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)
Context: The reviews were excellent and the book quickly went into a second printing. Then one night Ken came home and threw a copy of the book out the window. "You weren’t a writer when I married you, you were an actress," he said angrily. Obviously his colleagues had been riding him because of the attention I was receiving. I was shattered. The next day, he said, "I’ve been rereading your book. There’s love on every page." And then he gave me a beautiful red leather-bound copy of it with the inscription: "From the Critic to the Author." Looking at it I felt a pang. I wondered if it was his admission of what I’d done that he had not.
To my wonder and, it appeared, his annoyance, the book wouldn’t go away.

What's So Funny? (2007)

quoted by George A. Simonson in [Antonio Canal, The Burlington Magazine, January 1922, 40, 226, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924015109949;view=1up;seq=49, 36–41] (quote from pp. 39–40, taken from a letter by Owen Swiny to the 2nd Duke of Richmond, concerning Canaletto)

Source: Vortex (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 16)

Clary, pg. 135
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Variant: He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Gerald Shur, a high-ranking Justice Department official who founded the Witness Protection Program, on Safir's efforts to clean up the program.
[Russ Baker and Josh Benson, http://www.observer.com/1999/commish-bites-back-howard-safir-explains-his-life-his-critics, The Commish Bites Back: Howard Safir Explains His Life to His Critics, The New York Observer, 1999-05-16, 2007-12-20]
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