Vanessa

“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

“If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn’t joke about it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“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

“But remember always, as I told you at first, that this is all a fairy tale, and only fun and pretense; and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret