Nancy Lewis

“For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.”
― Witi Ihimaera, The Matriarch

“There will not always be scientific men, perhaps, but there always will be poets.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“It won't do to be too ambitious.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon