Virginia

“Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

“I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.”
― P. D. James

“The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language