Ian Laird

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

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
― Rudyard Kipling

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