Maren

“Blessed indeed are the children, for they will never pass up sanctioned invitations to show up their parents.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Tracy Chapman puts me through a moral Simpactor, breaking me into tiny pieces of uniform diameter so that I can absorb my own inadequacy.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist / Traveling Sprinkler

“My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhal—however that may be—it would certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick