Katie

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I loved you, and it may be that my love within my soul has not altogether died away, how be it, it will not trouble you anymore, I do not wish to sadden you in any way, I loved you in silence and without hope. Worn out now with jealousy and now with shamefacedness, I loved you so truly and so tenderly may God grant you, you may be loved by some other.”
― Pushkin

“when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping