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She had been picturing a village of mice living their lives under the bath, playing violins, going to school, having
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
What the river says, that is what I say.
William Stafford • Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

The children fell in love with stories easily and lived in stories too; they made up play stories every day, they stormed castles and conquered nations and sailed the ocean blue, and at night their dreams were full of dragons. They were all storytellers now, makers of stories as well as receivers of stories. But they went on growing up and slowly t
... See moreSalman Rushdie • Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
“To England and the English, as long as they keep their cooking to themselves.” Most of the French people we had met were more or less disdainful of la cuisine Anglaise without knowing very much about it. But Régis was different. He had made a study of the English and their eating habits, and during dinner he told us exactly where we went wrong. It
... See morePeter Mayle • Toujours Provence (Vintage Departures)
He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Now on the day when the princess turned fifteen, it happened that the king and the queen were away,
PHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Décidément les hommes étaient à ce point imbus d'eux-mêmes qu'ils étaient absolument incapables de comprendre que quelqu'un pût en avoir assez d'eux, de leur vue, et de leur odeur, et décider d'aller vivre parmi les éléphants parce qu'il n'y avait pas au monde de plus belle compagnie.
Romain Gary • Les racines du ciel (French Edition)
He had learned this one thing by the river: how to wait, how to have patience, how to listen attentively.