Suzan Szewczyk

“While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."

He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“You are a born storyteller," said the old lady. "You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and the sense to see that you could change it to another one.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

“Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible