Amanda Wiseman

“He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm