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“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Waking Gods

“Grandmother, I cannot find my slotted quilling tool. Help me look for it!”
“Where have you seen it last?” Grandmother asks her with a soft voice.
“I saw it yesterday, before getting dressed with my red coat with red button sewn with an even redder thread”, says Cosmina.
“But have you looked for it outside?” asks grandmother.
“Outside?!” said Cosmina in astonishment.
“Yes, let’s look for it together outside. What do you say?”
Cosmina regains hope and she gets dressed quickly to get outside with grandmother.
Among the snow angels and the small traces of the children’s tiny shoes, Cosmina and grandmother finally reach the fortress whose rooms were in the shape of a labyrinth. Grandmother looks in awe and she is happy to see how much imagination the kids had and she starts going through every side of the labyrinth, together with Cosmina. At the exit from the labyrinth, they see Cosmina’s slotted quilling tool in the snow. And like this, what was lost was found.
Now is your turn. Just help Cosmina find her way to the lost slotted quilling tool in the labyrinth below!”
― Alberta Neal, Quilling Techniques: Secret Quilling Styles Used by Cosmina

“The less evidence of extrinsic motivation during art school, the more success in professional art both several years after graduation and nearly twenty years later.”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key—and this is very relevant in our case—is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel