Frankie Osburn

“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
― Charles baudelaire

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

“he had every kind of sense but common sense.”
― David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder