Hallie

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“ Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods.
The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.”
― Ursula Vernon

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
― W. H. Auden