Mishearing Quotes

“Mishearing is how I love the world.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

“Have you noticed my fir?' asked the professor. Jessica emerging from the sparse and anonymous forests of her imaginings, misunderstood him. Fur? Was he speaking of his own body hair? Was he perhaps a werewolf? Or was he drawing attention to some unappreciated mink, ocelot or garment of beaver?

". . . planted it years ago,' he was saying. 'Whipped off the tinsel and the gewgaws, stuck it in the garden and now it's nearly sixty feet tall.'

Ah, though Jessica, reassured - a fir. She could identify Christmas trees.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The Inn at the Edge of the World