Tiffany

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality

“I hope, or I could not live.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine