#arrival

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

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#away #between #day #lies #minute