Colleen Earle

“I needed seven hours of sleep. At least. I've always envied those who don't need much sleep. Those who wake up after five hours and are ready to preform at their best. They're the ones who really go far in life, I've heard.”
― Maja Lunde, Bienes historie

“What I read in her words is a caution. Don't let your anger - especially if it is righteous, especially if you know you're on the side of right - fool you into thinking that it makes you right. Don't be precious about your anger, warns Ahmed. Don't let your anger become a site of oppression - for you, for others- when it can be a site of struggle. Don't let your own experience of anger - feminist, justified, understandable - become totemic. Don't let your anger be a stopping point.”
― Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

“Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.”
― Jean Plaidy, Queen of This Realm