Rhiannon Bacon

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.”
― Tanith Lee, Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas

“No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark lay hidden in the dregs of it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities