Franzi

“A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said:
'Then it's there.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Anachronism' implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and living in London.”
― Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is silence, stillness. Nothing more.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet