Bruce

“Be guided only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.”
― Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend