Eleanor

“It was usual for Gervas Leigh to lose everything not actually attached to his person by a string, the habit of dissociation from material things being the first to be acquired by men of saintly character.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist

“This day will go down in history!' said Jones.

'Every day goes down in history,' said the boss.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Why untidy hair and an inability to make oneself understood should be the hall-mark of genius I have never been able to understand.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

“Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie