Prati

“耳に飛び込んできた。 　「ポッターさんたちが、そう、わたしゃそう聞きました……」 　「……そうそう、息子のハリーがね……」 　ダーズリー氏はハッと立ち止まった。恐怖が湧き上がってきた。いったんはヒソヒソ”
― J.K. Rowling, ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 ハリー・ポッターシリーズ

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
― Walter Isaacson

“Two other firefighters do a 360 around the vehicle, shining flashlights everywhere. I watch the beams sweep across the dark ravine. One of them speaks on a walkie-talkie to someone above us. I can make out his words that the patient appears to be stable.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Curve in the Road

“Auld Lang Syne” isn’t traditionally a New Year’s song, like we’ve grown to think of it. An old Scotsman gave it to Robert Burns in 1788 to write down and make sure it got passed on. As I look around our Thanksgiving table, there’s a lot of “old time sake” to be had, so the song seems more appropriate this year than most, even if it does dredge up a lot of the past that I wish had remained there. When it’s over, and we’ve unchained ourselves from one another, I serve the pudding and pass the dishes around the table. I take a double helping, because I only get it once a year and I made it so, why the heck shouldn’t I?”
― Whitney Dineen, Relatively Normal