Julie Gomstyn

“But she shouldn't think of Lila either. She shouldn't think at all. Bob was right - she thinks too much. She thinks and thinks and thinks until she gets so tired of thinking, she never properly finishes whatever she started.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Really, Poirot! In the Middle Ages you would certainly have been burnt at the stake. How can you possibly know the things you do!”
― Agatha Christie, Hickory Dickory Death / The Mystery of the Blue Train / A Pocket Full of Rye / Murder on the Orient Express

“That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body—but siphons energy from the mind.

If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you’ll have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“If you marvel at your good fortune, you should marvel in secret: never let people see you.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light