Allison

“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.”
― Blue Balliett, The Calder Game

“Oh Harry," [Gwen] said. "I wish I were a different kind of person."

What kind of person, he wanted to know.

"Someone," she said slowly, "who truly loves life."

He was still looking at her, still cradling his glasses in his left hand. He said, "You're the kind of person who never stops trying.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air

“Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Ghosts of Ashbury High