Augusto Alvarez Pasquel

“...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell