Philip Pullman
We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: We need books, time, and silence. "Thou shalt not" is soon forgotten, but "Once upon a time" lasts forever.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
