Maureen

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

“This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.”
― David Samuel Levinson, Tell Me How This Ends Well

“Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?"
"Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.”
― Judith Merkle Riley, A Vision of Light