#quote jar

‘It is not everyone,’ said Elinor. ‘who has your passion for dead leaves.’ ‘No; my feelings are not often shared, not often understood. But sometimes they are.'

They were now falling together, which was all very sweet and romantic, but it didn’t solve the basic problem, which was that they were falling, and the ground wasn’t waiting around to see if he had any more clever tricks up his sleeve, but was coming up to meet them like an express train.

‘Squirrels never built spaceships,’ said Graff. ‘There are usually a few changes on the way from gathering nuts and seeds to harvesting asteroids and putting permanent research stations of the moons of Saturn.’

But also, don’t be afraid to make mistakes in the first place! That’s how we learn. Never do anything half-heartedly just because you’re afraid something may go slightly wrong. Something is always bound to go slightly wrong somewhere, so you might as well just go for it.

A tapestry of a medieval lady snags my gaze. She’s giving me a distinctly incredulous “oh no, this is not happening” face, and I’m grateful that someone sees what’s going on here. Even if she is woven.

‘I’m making notes,’ said the Philosopher Royal. ‘To remind me of our conversation.’ ‘Ah,’ said Roger. ‘You’re probably a bit forgetful then. Once you’ve learned to remember things you won’t need to do that. You can keep ‘em all folded up in your head. They don’t take up much room,’ he went on. ‘As long as you fold ‘em flat. I seen Joan do that with the sheets, and I thought, there’s a good idea. So now I folds and irons all the things in my head and I stack ‘em neat. I know where they all are.’

It seemed to her that certain places on earth must produce happiness, like a plant peculiar to that soil which grows poorly in any other spot.