Maureen

“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

“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

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson