Louise

“- Honestly, David, sometimes when they all start I don't know whether to scream or just walk out into the sunset.
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- Why don't you do both? Walk into the sunset screaming?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Eight Days of Luke

“If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

“The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course... The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.”
― Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child