WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:16:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg slow start – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Greenwood, Kerry -- Phryne Fisher, Book 11, Away with the Fairies, ch. 1 (2001) https://wist.info/greenwood-kerry/82031/ https://wist.info/greenwood-kerry/82031/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:48:45 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=82031 She felt that the day should not be bounced in on with rude energy, but carefully and delicately seduced into being, and children and animals were sadly impervious to reason on this matter.


Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
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Emily Brontë (1818–1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
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