"i don't really know why everybody made you small and they made you all i knew you had it cause you were in the shade of the sun maybe soon you'll come and i'll find you sitting there an enemy would know why you've got to be the one to do yeah the one to do you said you were going to find just who our maker is so tall and his ears in the tallest of places now well i looked him right in the eyes and now i know i looked him right between the eyes and now i know what he thought about you and your socks he doesn't approve because you were wearing crocodile boots i know he didn't approve you but i thought and i fought and you took my heart turned it into nothing like the chalk off the board you erased before."
"One of my favorite parts is the beginning of the first chapter, where Stephen Hawking tells about a famous scientist who was giving a lecture about how the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the solar system, and whatever. Then a woman in the back of the room raised her hand and, 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' So the scientist asked her what the tortoise was standing on. And she said, 'But it's turtles all the way down!' I love that story because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises." -JSF
"My sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fightingh for, my sister isablel created hundreds (and hundreds)of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privelige and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)." - E.E. Cummings
