Madeline

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“Nobody in the world can make you crazy like your family can.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“It is true that few of us can worship the self naked and unashamed for very long. For one thing, it simply doesn't work. Living for his own pleasure is the least pleasurable thing a man can do: if his neighbours don't kill him in disgust, he will die slowly of boredom and lovelessness.”
― Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain