Sarah

“A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of freedom."

(Interview, The Hindu, 2012)”
― Salman Rushdie

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It was always after reading tales such as these that she wondered how on earth it was that some young ladies did not read at all, or declared they had no interest in it. Didn't they know how you could feel so much from a book? Didn't they know how your heart could race and break from words on a page? Had they never read something so wonderful and horrible that they felt as though the very would should stop and pause to acknowledge the depth of feeling it produced?”
― Margaux Gillis, Ravenwood