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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
    'Cats don't have names,' it said.
    'No?' said Coraline.
    'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “We are small but we are many
    We are many we are small
    We were here before you rose
    We will be here when you fall”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #8
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #9
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #10
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #11
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #12
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We do not know what things look like.
    We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #14
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #15
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Wild nights are my glory!”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #16
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?"
    I do face facts," Meg said.
    They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: humor

  • #17
    Gary Paulsen
    “He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #18
    Gary Paulsen
    “Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #19
    Gary Paulsen
    “Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #20
    Gary Paulsen
    “I am full of tough hope”
    Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

  • #21
    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #22
    Roald Dahl
    “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #23
    Roald Dahl
    “It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #24
    Roald Dahl
    “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #25
    Roald Dahl
    “Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #26
    Roald Dahl
    “Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
    Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
    Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #27
    Roald Dahl
    “I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
    -Grandpa Joe”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #28
    P.L. Travers
    “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
    P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

  • #29
    P.L. Travers
    “There was something strange and extraordinary about her – something that was frightening and at the same time most exciting.”
    P.L. Travers, The Complete Mary Poppins

  • #30
    P.L. Travers
    “Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon”
    P. L. Travers, The Complete Mary Poppins



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