Nina > Nina's Quotes

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Steeds weer keek ik vanuit het klaslokaal naar buiten, naar de vrijheid van de vogels in de boom op het schoolplein. Als kind moest je van kooitje naar kooitje, gekortwiekt door regels en leerplicht en ‘zo hoort het nu eenmaal’.

Ooit zou ik daarboven uitstijgen, nam ik me voor.

Ooit zou ik vliegen.”
― Judith Visser, Zondagskind

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden

“Perhaps you will tell us now what a Doran is."
"it is someone who loves all the creatures of the world, the animals, birds, plants, trees, and people, and who cannot bear to do any of them harm. It is someone who believes that they are all linked together and that therefore everything can be used to heal the pain and suffering of the world. It is someone who does not hate anybody and who is not frightened of anyone or anything.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
― Paul Collins

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables