Catherine Hines

“Biography is at the mercy of information, and information about the Royal Family is seldom there when you want it. Or rather, there is a wealth of information, but most of it is window-dressing: the shop itself is shut, visible only through the front window, its private offices firmly under lock and key.”
― Craig Brown, Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

“understanding history as a form of inquiry—not as something easy or comforting but as something demanding and exhausting—was central to the nation’s founding.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.”
― Greg Iles, The Quiet Game

“No one in life, not the wartiest old dame in Aries, not the wrinkledest, stoopingest Cossack, not the pony-tailedest, venerablest old Mandarin in China, not Methuselah himself, will ever be older than a group of seniors at school. They are like Victorian photographs of sporting teams. No matter how much more advanced in years you are now than the age of those in the photograph, they will always look a world older, always seem more capable of growing a bigger moustache and holding more alcohol. The sophistication with which they sit and the air of maturity they give off is unmatchable by you. Ever.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot