Amy

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues

“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda