Boris Barlock

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.”
― Gregory Maguire, What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

“If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.”
― James Fenimore Cooper

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London