Sarah

“...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.”
― Dodie Smith

“As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me It was more likely that the sun and the moon should suddenly dance a jolly jig in the heavens than that one of my sisters should apologize. It was simply unheard of.”
― Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard