Renee Freeman

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Well, this is my final truth: if I had a granddaughter, I would want her to be exactly like you.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“I really am fine,” Humphrey said in the corridor. “I just got old by accident.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe