Bridie

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music.' (-- The Overlords, from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End)”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart