If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.
John Turturro
Bored Sick
Convalescing need never be dull, unless you make it so.
from The Magic Key to Charm by Eileen Ascroft
Huge Tracts of… Linen
If I had to be born a lady, why not a rich lady, so someone else could do the work and I could lie on a silken bed and listen to a beautiful minstrel sing while my servants hemmed? Instead I am the daughter of a country knight with but ten servants, seventy villagers, no minstrel, and acres of unhemmed linen.
from Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman