Ian Laird

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story