Basia

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought