Alexandra

“Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life”
― Frances Cornford

“TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet.
HECTOR: But it will, Timms. It will. And then you will have the antidote ready! Grief. Happiness. Even when you're dying. We're making your deathbeds here, boys.
LOCKWOOD: Fucking Ada.
HECTOR: Poetry is the trailer! Forthcoming attractions!”
― Alan Bennett

“S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)”
― Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia