Ian Laird
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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

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

“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
John Carey

Olivia Manning
“Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.”
Olivia Manning, Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

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

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