Ian Laird
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Tove Jansson
“Where's your home then?" asked the Snork Maiden.
"Nowhere," said Snufkin a little sadly, "or everywhere. It depends how you look at it.”
Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

Penelope Fitzgerald
“She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Rudyard Kipling
“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”
Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Owen Marshall
“I felt I lived my life on the bottom of one of those great, sea aquariums with species foreign to me passing as dim shapes soundlessly, and with their own fixed purpose, overhead.”
Owen Marshall, Owen Marshall: Selected Stories

W.E. Johns
“The first man who puts a foot past that next rock will meet a small piece of nickel coated lead coming the other way. Got that?”
W.E. Johns, Biggles Hits the Trail

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