Merry

“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from their battles. Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power, a man who's achieved the very summit of earthly ambition. And yet his dreams will be haunted by the oppressions of war. William Wilberforce, however, will return to his family, lay his head on his pillow and remember: the slave trade is no more.”
― Charles Fox

“I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
― Laurie R. King