Winnie

“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“From 1984 until 2016 the Senate ballot paper worked on a group voting ticket basis: either you voted for one party above the line, or you laboriously numbered every single individual candidate in order of preference. Since this typically involved ranking between sixty and a hundred-plus boxes for people of whom even the most ardent upper house enthusiast had never heard, only a tiny fraction of the voting population bothered to do so—less than 3 per cent in the 2013 election—typically because they bore a particular grudge against a specific party or candidate and were willing to sacrifice quarter of an hour of box-numbering simply to experience the righteous thrill of putting their political nemesis last.”
― Andrew P. Street, The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat

“I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?"
"Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.”
― H.H. Munro (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis