<p>" . . . You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
-Pip, to Estella, from Great Expectations</p>
<p>“When modern man is confronted with the mysteries of the universe, he turns to physics, not Hesiod’s Hexables” Yurii Zhivago’s Uncle, in /Dr. Zhivago/</p>
<p>“Well,” said Pooh, “we keep looking for Home and not finding
it, so I thought that if we looked for this Pit, we’d be sure not
to find it, which would be a Good Thing, because then we might
find something that we weren’t looking for, which might be just
what we were looking for, really.”
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit.
“No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to
be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.”</p>
<p>“People never notice anything.” - Holden Caulfield</p>