Sarah

“before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.”
― Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

“I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features. He was thin and worn, but clear and alert, his keen face bronzed by the sun and roughened by the wind. In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa at Sea

“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles