Redqueen

“The bar was, in fact, a library. A place Dickens would have been comfortable in. Where Conan Doyle might have found a useful volume. Where Jane Austen could sit and read. And get drunk, if she wanted.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home

“She walked with the most subtle, solid confidence I have ever seen, as if she knew she ought to swagger, but couldn’t quite be bothered.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Life, death, change, they happened most at the edge of things: where forest meets clearing, air meets water.”
― Nicola Griffith, Hild

“But don’t they have more sunshine here than they do in San Francisco? Don’t you have lots of fog?” “Fog!” the man exclaimed. “Why that’s the thing that makes San Francisco. When that fog comes rolling in from the ocean, it peps you up. It’s bracing, stimulating. There’s a lot of rush and bustle in connection with San Francisco. Down here, people seem to have the hookworm. You girls really don’t live here, do you?” “What makes you think we don’t?” Della said. “Too much class—too much pep.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Crooked Candle