It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.