Sherley Carstensen

“The difference between your horse and your monkey?—I don’t know, I’m sure.’ ‘No, it is rather a tricky one,’ said Pippi. ‘But I’ll give you a clue. If you see them both under a tree and then one of them starts to climb it, it’s not the horse.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas

“She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.”
― Wallace Stegner

“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out