Marianne Ritchie

“The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter.
"It isn't mine," said the Hatter.
"Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
"I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park