Geoffrey Rose

“Raymond Chandleresque
She was a cherry red blonde, you know, the kinda knockout blonde that
could wean a priest off young boys and leave him blushing holding the lollipop.”
― Beryl Dov

“Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”
― Edmund Wilson