Andrea

“But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Talent just defines what you do,” he said. “It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle,' Poirot said gently. 'It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. Not to acquire a taste for the realistic is childish in the bad sense; to have lost the taste for marvels and adventures is no more a matter for congratulation than losing our teeth, our hair, our palate, and finally, our hopes. Why do we hear so much about the defects of immaturity and so little about those of senility?”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism