Iona

“When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care. ”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

“All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Saturdays

“That’s what the mother of the gardener’s boy said,” remarked Teresa; “she wanted me to have it destroyed, but I pointed out to her that she had eleven children and I had only one elk. ”
― Saki, The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories

“It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth