Natalie

“Then she laughed out loud and hugged him tight with both arms. She smelled like pine trees and lichens and hot sand. How odd, thought Roger, that after all, this is what it took - not a flock of scarlet ibises or golden-crowned kinglets, but just the names of chicken, hovering in the air like the sulpher butterflies at the dump.”
― Bailey White, Quite a Year for Plums

“I don't think I ever met anyone more entirely civilized - T E Lawrence”
― Georgina Howell, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

“...but while you are wondering whether she be angel or devil, she is gone.”
― Gertrude Bell, Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“Well, I’m sorry. But if ever you needed proof that the Bible was written by a man, there you have”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway