Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Oh, but it is right, just as it is right that stone won't burn
like wood, that sea sand isn't sugar, that thorns prick, that
water is wet, that smoke rises, that things fall down and not
up."

But such doctrine of reality made no impression on Saxon.
Frankly, she could not comprehend. It seemed like so much
nonsense.