Lois > Lois's Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.”
― Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

“he prayed with them up to the very gallows if he could. ‘It’s the duty of any half-decent clergyman to walk into Hell itself,’ he used to say. ‘We’re needed most where God is least.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide

“I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love.”
― Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide