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There was always a flight of tiny creatures – little crabs, squid, and even some weeds, light and filmy, and coral plants – that broke from the sea and ended up on the Moon, hanging down from that lime-white ceiling”

Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics – The Distance of the Moon

And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade”

Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

If the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever.”

L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!”

“Well, now that we have seen each other”, said the unicorn, “if you’ll believe in me, i’ll believe in you.”

Lewis Carroll, Through the looking-glass

Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.”

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan