Numbers Brightman

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses