Jerome Turner

“if you trust in yourself …’ ‘Yes?’ ‘… and believe in your dreams …’ ‘Yes?’ ‘… and follow your star …’ Miss Tick went on. ‘Yes?’ ‘… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Everybody was good at something. The only wicked thing was not finding out in time.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“With an eye on possible publication in the future, I had divided the work into chapters, and the night before I had brought it up to date with an account of Miss Russell’s visit. Poirot had therefore twenty chapters.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“(The coffee was very slow in coming.)”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway