Subaltern Meliton Quote by Brian Jacques

“Upon her butler’s announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up…

— Georgette Heyer

“I don’t think anyone goes to Birmingham,”

— Heide Goody

“He knew he was going to reach Berwick, and that all he had to do was to place one foot in front of the…

— Rachel Joyce

“Most mornings I get up to listen to the birds, and each summer I taste the honeysuckle, and I kiss Rus in the golden…

— Ashley Poston

“And then Holt, the Queen's Guard, placed his maps on the desk, neatly so they would not fall, tipped Thiel over one shoulder, tipped…

— Kristin Cashore

“To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“And has it ever occurred to you, Miss Griffith, that you would probably not be able to take a good express train to London…

— Agatha Christie

“Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

“All was murkiness, now, the landscape and woods, and far below, the dark brooding sweep of the sea. From a limb he could not…

— Julie Berry

“On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Take it for all in all, a representative gathering of Twing life and thought. The Nibs were whispering in a pleased manner to each…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable to detect…

— Martin Amis