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#1

“We only fail when we stop trying.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

tags: apollo

#2

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: analogy, inspiration, machine, thought-provoking, usefulness

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#3

“We’ll come back,” said Papa.
“I know,” said Anna... “But it won’t be the same - we won’t belong. Do you think we’ll ever really belong anywhere?”
“I suppose not,” said Papa. “Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we’ll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.”
― Judith Kerr, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

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#4

“No story ever ends, does it? It just leads into others.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

tags: endings, stories

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#5

“We are not good, as a human species, at accepting that extraordinary things do sometimes happen.”
― Katherine Rundell, Skysteppers: World Book Day 2021

tags: sensible

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#6

“Never ignore a possible. ~Charles”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#7

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: sky, thinkers, thinking, thought

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#8

“Books crowbar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: books, reading

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#9

“It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

tags: books, reading, stories

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#10

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#11

“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: bravery, courage, love

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#12

“It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: belief

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#13

“You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

tags: children

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#14

“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#15

“If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

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#16

“You shouldn't say what you don't mean”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#17

“It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.”
― Katherine Rundell

tags: cats, dancing, humor, importance, true, truth

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#18

“Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

tags: books, children-s-literature, kidslit, reading

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#19

“She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless.”
― Katherine Rundell

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#20

“Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: secrets

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#21

“Look after the things you love, or else you don’t deserve to love anything,”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

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#22

“Everybody needs secrets. Only be sure they are good ones.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: secrets

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#23

“But make sure the risks you take aren’t taken to impress someone else.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Explorer

tags: risks

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#24

“It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope.”
― Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

tags: hope

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#25

“Mothers are a thing you need, like air, she thought, and water. Even paper mothers were better than nothing; even imaginary ones. Mothers were a place to put down your heart. They were a resting stop to recover your breath.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#26

“I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine Rundell

tags: books, books-are-life

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#27

“Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.”
― Katherine Rundell

tags: children, disbelief, truth

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#28

“But it's a child! You're a man!"

"Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: humor, oh-snap, parenting

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#29

“Books crow-bar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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#30

“It tastes like liquidated carpet”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

tags: good-description

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