Julie Raynor

“Chiswell’s and Winn’s offices were in the Palace of Westminster itself, which, with its vaulted ceilings, libraries, tearooms and air of comfortable grandeur, might have been an old university college. A half-covered passageway, watched over by large stone statues of a unicorn and lion, led to an escalator to Portcullis House. This was a modern crystal palace, with a folded glass roof, triangular panes held in place by thick black struts.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“Like most of my predecessors, I have hunted the unicorn chiefly in libraries, realizing the delightful absurdity of the task quite as fully as any one could point it out to me.”
― Odell Shepard, The Lore of the Unicorn: Historical Mythology

“One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd’s luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918

“real magic comes out of what is around you, it is born from the long conversation, negotiation, fellowship that human beings have with the things of the world.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic