Mary

“CALVIN:
Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet.

HOBBES:
What's so magic about it?

CALVIN:
Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them.

HOBBES:
Isn't this the rug from the hallway?

CALVIN:
Up, Rug!
Up! Up!

CALVIN:
Hey, Look!
It works!
Ok, rug, warp factor five.

HOBBES:
Is this legal?
Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?”
― Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho!

“Children are so beautiful, flawless and shiny, like a chestnut newly out of its shell. Such a shame they all grow up to be abominable adults.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers