Laura Arthur

“You can choose to walk through life and pay people for the opinion you want to hear. Truth exists nonetheless.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, The Fall

“It’s not so much the wars as the treaties that follow that truly alter the course of history. The Marshall Plan changed the world more expressly than World War II itself. Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.”
― Steve Berry, The Alexandria Link

“unaware that Roosevelt privately rated his intelligence at “about eight guinea-pig power.”
― Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde