Finlay Dick

“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Nothing moved [Emily Bronte] more than any insinuation that the faithfulness and clemency, the long-suffering and loving-kindness which are esteemed virtues in the daughters of Eve, become foibles in the sons of Adam.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“When I'm writing, I'm more conscious of the sound, actually, than the meaning. I know what the rhythm of the sentence is going to be before I know what the words are going to be in it.”
― Philip Pullman