Lin

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I’m standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I’m afraid that I’m going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the rail and I’m going to fall over and be killed.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time