Dana

“Those books which lie closest to our hearts are precisely the books we should give away, so that they may bring others happiness.”
― Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

“If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.”
― Eric Dinerstein, What Elephants Know

“Nostalgic is something people really don’t need anymore but still like to have around, like jukeboxes or roller skates or appendixes. Do you guys have appendixes?”
― Jack Cheng, See You in the Cosmos

“Did you know some of the stars have names? He looked at me and smiled with that warm look he gets now and then. Yes, he said, but I don’t know their names, do you? No, I said, but lets name them ourselves. We’ll name them after everyone we love that is already in heaven, and every night when we see their star, we’ll have a good memory of them instead of a sad one. See how beautiful it is up there?”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901