Cindy

“Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.”
― Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Enigma

“Whenever Monsieur Perdu looked at a book, he did not see it purely in terms of a story, retail price and an essential balm for the soul; he saw freedom on wings of paper.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.”
― Ruth Moore, Candlemas Bay

“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog