Shannon

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.”
― Ammon Shea, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree