Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.