Julie Akeman

“franklin," she said sternly, "you know your daddy told you not to play with matches!"
"no he didn’t," franklin countered. "he told me not to let him catch me playing with matches. and I’m not going to let him catch me.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Ruth, A Portrait: The story of Ruth Bell Graham

“nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.”
― Douglas Preston, Dance of Death

“Inside every one of us, thought Mma Ramotswe, there is the child we once were, the child that was unsure about the world and our place in it.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The House of Unexpected Sisters

“that's what i mean about cats. they're always trying to make fools of us humans.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Private Life of the Cat Who...