Vanessa

“But I'm learning the bitter difference between independence and self-exile.”
― Margaret Owen, Little Thieves

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

“Dorthy Stopped in the Doorway and watched what they were doing. "You boys sure know how to treat a women," she said. "Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.”
― J. J. Murphy

“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