Marie

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I shall break my journey home at Istanbul and spend a few days exploring the city. All my life I have wanted to see Santa Sofia. And then, I shall treat myself to a sleeping car on the Orient Express. After all, at my age I deserve these little luxuries"... John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. In Michael Bakewell's full cast BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.”
― Agatha Christie

“If she had been asked to describe him, she would have said that he was the exact spot where the sea touches land, the precise moment of the final reach of the surf. That was the place and time of him. She would forever, then, seek shorelines and beaches.”
― Jane Urquhart, Away