Katrina McBride

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.”
― Robert Southey

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo