A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.
Jessica MitfordThings on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Jessica MitfordAlas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.
Jessica MitfordThe character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
Jessica Mitford