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

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

“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

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

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