Colleen Earle

“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

“Still, when I think of early friendships, I think not of people but of books. Books were my friends, and more often than not, the characters in the books were my imaginary friends, who stepped out of the pages and walked wth me to school or sat in bed with me, talking when I was meant to be asleep. What I mean is reading was my friends. And also I mean that I learned about friendship - patience, slowness, listening, care - from reading and from reading about friendship between people.”
― 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

“You can indeed die at the margins of a story, but you are as dead as if it were your own tale ending and never told.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, All the Seas of the World