Whimsy

“The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star.
I don't know if things like that are fair or not.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“I once had a dream about the aqueduct being a musical instrument filled with water and bells hanging by small watermelon chains right at the top of the water and the water making the bells ring.
I told the dream to Fred and he said that it sounded all right to him."That would really make beautiful music," he said.”
― Brautigan, Richard

“Theodore Finch leans against an SUV, hands in pockets, like he has all the time in the world and he expects me. I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: “Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“This is what I want to do with Violet—give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places