Rachel

“Doug Swieteck,' Mr. Ferris said, 'do you know the basic principle of physical science?'

A trick?

'No,' I said, sort of slow.

'The basic principle of physical science is this: no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?'

'I think so,' I said.

'Do you understand what the principle means?'

I shook my head.

'It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Granny was truly marvellous; five feet of Yorkshire common sense, love, and superstition. She was always saying wise things. I remember, among many sayings, when one time she had given me a particularly good present, she said, "No it's not generous. Being generous is giving something that's hard to give." She was so superstitious that she kept a set of worthless china to break when she happened to break something good, on the grounds that breakages always came in threes and it was as well to get it over. I would have been lost without Granny, that I know.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Reflections: On the Magic of Writing

“star charts this time, but rendered in calligraphy and gold and silver leaf, stunning juxtapositions of the technological future and the hand-crafted past.”
― M.C.A. Hogarth, Even The Wingless