Helen

“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates—the course of events—over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.”
― Jill Lepore