It was clear to Willie and to Jean that Mops was exceptional. She was the only girl who kept a commonplace book; they used to talk about “Mops and her Book of Quotes.”

If you didn’t already need a reason to commonplace. “Mops” gives you another; it automatically makes you exceptional 🙂

It’s details like these that keep me returning to biography so often.

Lee, Hermione. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. United States, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. pg 38