Vanessa

“...when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Did money talk louder than intelligence and refinement in the seventeenth century? Probably. Why was it that the things her own time had in common with this slice of the past were mostly the things everyone would be better off without? Were people only capable of passing on the worst of themselves to future generations?”
― Paula Brackston, The Little Shop of Found Things

“It’s more fun to believe, isn’t it? And one thing’s for certain. You’ll never see them if you don’t.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

“She needs the hand of friendship extended. Are we not all of us, at some time or another, dependent on the kindness of others? Would we not wish someone to act selflessly for our sake?”
― Paula Brackston, The Little Shop of Found Things