Nellie Green

“To have mastered "method" and "theory" is to have become a self-conscious thinker, a man at work and aware of assumptions and the implications of whatever he is about. To be mastered by "method" or "theory" is simply to be kept from working, from trying, that is, to find out about something that is going on in the world.”
― C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination (1959:120-121) as mentioned by Gerring (Social Scienc

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“Summer does something to the brain, " Beth said. "It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers ”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Summer People

“There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter