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“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”
“Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what ma...”
“His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.”
“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.”
“Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact ...”
“Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?”
“Luke would always remember the day of his drowning”
“If you never lie, you don't have to remember what you said.”
“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or writer, but the artist who will write on the table of chil...”
“God is love, as we love we become like God”
“That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.”
“What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually...”
“I've been the oldest child since before you were born”
“A word is a small song.”
“Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in s...”
“Leaves lift trees.”
“Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35”
“The dragon turned on the children and unicorns, his mouth open. For a brief moment, they could see his eyes change from blue to a deep red, like coals in a fire. It was almost as if another, fierce...”
“Charlottes dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.”
“Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even gues...”
