Juniper

“If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Would you like an adventure now,"... "or would you like to have your tea first?”
― J.M. Barrie

“Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys”
― Polish proverb

“Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.”
― Isabella L. Bird, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains