Ruth

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“Human life has always been lived on the edge of precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory