Nick Dach

“Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny