“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
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“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
― The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
Merrianna’s 2025 Year in Books
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