Kirsti

“They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn’t know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg’s Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. ‘Margaret’s a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know.”
― Margaret Powell, Below Stairs

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“He entertained himself by slipping increasingly outrageous puns into the copy, which culminated in a headline about a dachshund race that read, “All Wieners in the Long Run.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir

“Violators of the edict were threatened with eternal damnation and a fine of 10 ducats.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern