“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
– L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

“Perhaps the careful study of man’s past will explain to me much that seems inexplicable in this disconcerting present. Perhaps the mans of salvation are already there, implicit in history, unadvertised, carefully concealed by the war-mongers, only awaiting rediscovery to be acknowledged with enthusiasm by all thinking men and women.”
– Vera Brittain, “Testament of Youth”

“One cannot reason a person out of something they did not reason themselves into.”
– TaraShea Nesbit, “Beheld”

“For the times do, in fact, change. They change relentlessly. Inevitably. Inventively. And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.”
– Amor Towles, “A Gentleman in Moscow”