Diane

“There, eastward, within a stone's throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls', fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in the sunshine, the drenched oval in the quad beneath brilliant as an emerald in the bezel of a ring. Behind them, black and grey, New College frowning like a fortress, with dark wings wheeling about her”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“belfry louvres; and Queen's with her dome of green copper; and, as the eye turned southward, Magdalen, yellow and slender, the tall lily of towers; the Schools and the battlemented front of University; Merton, square-pinnacled, half-hidden behind the shadowed North side and mounting spire of St. Mary's. Westward again, Christ Church, vast between Cathedral spire and Tom Tower; Brasenose close at hand; St. Aldate's and Carfax beyond; spire and tower and quadrangle, all Oxford springing underfoot in living leaf and enduring stone, ringed far off by her bulwark of blue hills.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“A primary goal of liturgical spirituality—that is, spirituality that is grounded and formed by regularly repeated fixed patterns of prayers, scripture, and ritual actions—is to create a disciplined recollection of God.”
― Derek A. Olsen, Inwardly Digest: The Prayer Book as Guide to a Spiritual Life

“information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.”
― Ian Rankin, A Heart Full of Headstones