Megan

“He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.”
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“She is at rest.

Peace, peace, she cannot hear,
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Poetry

“At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
― Caroline Lamb