Alan Cornett

“‎His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express

“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express