Lynsay

“How old was More when Richard succeeded?
He was five.
When that dramatic council scene had taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had been five years old. He had been only eight when Richard died at Bosworth.
Everything in that history had been hearsay.”
― Josephine Tey

“The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious.”
― Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
― Marlene Dietrich