Elspeth

“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell