Hayley

“The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?”
― Peter Mayle, A Good Year

“The world is full of men who
ought never to shave their upper lip, and Blair Eggleston was one of them. Coming out into the open, as it were, like this, he had revealed himself the possessor of a not very good mouth. A peevish mouth. The sort of mouth that bred doubts in a girl.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Hot Water

“There was no self-consciousness in Sarah's manner. There was, indeed, no self-consciousness in her attitude to life. She was interested in humanity and was of a friendly though impatient disposition.
"What made you speak to him?" asked Gerard.
Sarah shrugged her shoulders. "Why not? I often speak to people traveling.
I'm interested in people-in what they do and think and feel.”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment With Death

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” said Bilbo, and he turned his back on his adventure.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit