HAVE I GONE MAD? I'M AFRAID SO, BUT LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, THE BEST PEOPLE USUALLY ARE.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

THE SAME SUBSTANCE COMPOSES US - THE TREE OVERHEAD, THE STONE BENEATH US, THE BIRD, THE BEAST, THE STAR - WE ARE ALL ONE, ALL MOVING TO THE SAME END.

P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. but these things don't matter at all, because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

Margery Williams Bjanco, The Velveteen Rabbit

NO ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY; EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED, BY SOME, TO DREAM.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein