Elizabeth

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
― Jon Stewart

“If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me. ”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice