Jennifer Burns

“It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.”
― Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy

“An education for economic productivity and political utility alone is an education for slaves, but an education for finding, collecting, and communicating reality is an education for free people, people free to know what is so.”
― Scott F. Crider, The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay

“Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different. Between them no subject is finished, no communication is ever made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility