Barely Lucid > Barely's Quotes

“The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.”
― N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

“Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.”
― N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

“Adventures are funny things.
Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson

“The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, Dreamtreaders

“Sometimes the way forward is the way back.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, Ghost

“Family is there to hold you together in the places you're weak. To let you know you belong somewhere in a world that might want to chew you up and spit you out.”
― Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Hunter

“Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.”
― N.D. Wilson, Dandelion Fire

“For what good is a man who does nothing to allay his child's nightmares when those nightmares take on claws and scaly flesh and burst into her room?”
― Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Wingfeather Tales

“A heart, it turns out, could be fanged though the body might still appear whole.
And he saw now that he had in his own way been singing the fanging song all along”
― Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Wingfeather Tales