“Up there in the sky.Don’t you see him?No, not the moon.The Man in the Moon.He wasn’t always a man.Nor was he always on the moon.He was once a child.Like you.Until a battle,a shooting star,and a lost balloonled him on a quest.Meet the very firstGuardian of Childhood.MiM, the Man in the Moon.”— William Joyce
“Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.”— Shannon Wiersbitzky
“[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]”— Jonathan Franzen