Sue

“I don’t mean to deny that men are troublesome in a house.  I don’t judge from my own experience, for my father was neatness itself, and wiped his shoes on coming in as carefully as any woman; but still a man has a sort of knowledge of what should be done in difficulties, that it is very pleasant to have one at hand ready to lean upon.  Now,”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The cottage was set hard into the side of the hill, crouching before the winter winds that roared across the moors. It announced itself by smell long before you could catch sight of it. Sometimes sickly sweet, sometimes astringent, the scents of herbal brews and cordials wafted powerfully from the precincts of the little home.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders: A haunting historical literary fiction novel of human resilience in 17th century England

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring lives.”
― Eliza Maxwell, The Unremembered Girl