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“Stories are powerful things," she said quietly. "And sometimes we have to be very brave to tell them.”
― The Secret of Nightingale Wood
― The Secret of Nightingale Wood
“[T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.”
― The Thicket
― The Thicket
“There is a power in the emptiness of the hills; and it's a hostile power. One old tin-can lying on the ground would make all the difference. But there was no tin-can: what we could see was all so powerfully un-human as to be able to erase our knowledge of its narrow limits.”
― Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
― Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
“Children are really the ancients among us. It is we, the older people, who bear the stamp of temporariness, the impress of a brief, particular period: we, with our clothes of a particular fashion, our manners dictated by the conventions of our generation, our heads packed full of the prejudices, called information, peculiar to the particular time at which we were educated.”
― Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
― Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
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