βYou always know when itβs your first time, donβt you? But you rarely know when itβs your final time.β
β Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
βFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.β
β Neil Gaiman, Coraline
βLife is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.β
β Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author