(A) (h)uge (dev)ourer *of books*

“while money couldn’t always buy you happiness, a lack of money always brought anguish.”
― Tilly Bagshawe, Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow

“If they’d hang head-down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along. But no—with men it’s rush, rush, rush, every minute.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

“A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Was that really and truly what people were secretly feeling everywhere? Was that what, ultimately, war did to you? It was not the physical dangers—the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think…”
― Agatha Christie, Taken at the Flood