Peter

“Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Come spring, the trees give us gifts. Green bits that helicopter down from above. When they land, Joey and I follow, retrieve them and bend the blades until they touch, releasing the glue inside so we can stick them onto our noses and call each other Pinocchio. This beats anything in my yard. Gathering buds that die and fall was fine once. But chasing helicopters and having a green nose is better.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“Pity acts through the imagination, the higher light of the world, and imagination arises from the world of things, as a rainbow from the sun.”
― Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter