'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’

“kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond bracelet lasts forever!”

Anita Loos

‘Crime In Kensington’

“It is the ordinary happenings that can have the most sinister causes”

Christopher St John Sprigg

‘Down and Out in Paris and London’

“the evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer… it rots him physically and spiritually”

George Orwell

'I Give It To You’

“Theres something about talking to a writer that makes people so uncomfortable they babble stories in self-defence”

Valerie Martin

‘All Passion Spent’

‘If one is not to please oneself old age, when is one to please oneself? There is so little time left!’

Vita Sackville-West

‘Cymbeline’

‘though those that are betray’d do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe’

William Shakespeare

'Lolita’

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita ”

Vladimir Nabokov

‘The Remains of The Day’

“If you are under the impression that you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of'“

Kazuo Ishiguro

‘Cider with Rosie’

“We carried cut hay from the heart of the rick, packed up tight as tobacco flake, with grass and wildflowers juicily fossilised within - a whole summer embalmed in our arms”

Laurie Lee

‘The Pursuit of Love’

“Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in the black waters of despair, they loved and they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

Nancy Mitford

‘Animal Farm’

‘All Animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’

George Orwell

‘The Philadelphia Story’

'Marriage doesn’t change true a case like yours, my dear. It’s an affair of the spirit- not the flesh’

Philip Barry

‘The Canterville Ghost

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both”

Oscar Wilde

‘Pride and Prejudice’

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife’

Jane Austen

‘The Comedy Of Errors’

‘I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop’

William Shakespeare

‘Death in The Clouds’

‘Murder’ said Norman Gale ‘doesn’t concern the victim and the guilty only. it affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us'.

Agatha Christie

‘The Life of Pi’

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”

Yann Martel

‘The Sorcery Shop: An Impossible Romance’

‘Mother is politics, religion, drill sergeant, elementary school and many much better things, all rolled into one’

Robert Blatchford

‘Anna Karenina’

‘“No, they needs must teach us how to live. They have no conception of what happiness is, and they do not know that without love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us, for us there would be no life”’

Leo Tolstoy

‘Of Dogs And Wails’

‘We mortals who dwell on land have always imagined, at the bottom of the sea, another world where we are meant to go, chill and beautiful’

Yuko Tsushima

Call Me By Your Name

“do you like being alone?” He asked.

”No. No one likes being alone. But I’ve learned to live with it”

André Aciman