Matthew Wagoner

“He tried his luck again, and things went so smoothly that with no more noise or disturbance than the last time, he found himself rid of the burden that had caused him so much grief. But since Don Quixote had a sense of smell as acute as his hearing, and Sancho was joined so closely to him, and the vapors rose up almost in a straight line, some unavoidably reached his nostrils, and as soon as they did he came to the assistance of his nostrils and squeezed them closed between two fingers, and in a somewhat nasal voice, he said: “It seems to me, Sancho, that you are very frightened.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

“It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“That is the nature of women,” said Don Quixote. “They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote