In a tiny nutty shell

1) You must let them [flat worms] ooze and craw of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water.

            John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

2) The afternoon came down as imperceptibly as age comes to a happy man.
           John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat 
3) With gorilla gone will there be hope for man? With man gone will there be hope for gorilla?
         Daniel Quinn, Ishmael 

4) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”

            William Shakespeare, As You Like It

5) Love is or it ain’t.  Thin love ain’t love at all.

            Toni Morrison, “Beloved

6) The happiness of being alone with people.

            Kafka

7) Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

            Lewis Carol, “Jabberwocky” 
 8 ) If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.            
             Lewis Carol “Through the Looking Glass”
 9) Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.            
            Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit” 

10) Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health.

            Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye