Christine

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont