Marina Pavlichenko

“A parent must do two things: teach the child a way to earn a living, and to swim.”
― S.J. Schwaidelson, Lingua Galactica

“I'm gonna cry all over your hair.”
― Lanford Wilson, Burn This

“I read everything, both serious and funny. Dickens, Thackeray, Rider Haggard, PG Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe, and the endless wailing of Virginia Woolf, thin terrible books where nothing happened.”
― Maggie Gee, My Cleaner

“He is notoriously difficult to understand both because of his strong accent and dialect, and because he has no teeth. Today he told me about a woman whose garden he works in once a week. According to Jock, she is not a very good driver because of her poor vision. "She got carrots in her eyes.”
― Shaun Bythell