Van Selander

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Van’s Quotes

“The colors were brighter, the air was fresher, and the flowers more beautiful than any that the teens had ever seen.”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

tags: beautiful-places, escapist-reads, fantasy, nature-magic, portal-fantasy, sense-of-wonder, worldbuilding, ya

17 likes

“It seemed to him the EPA, or the Earth Policy Administration, weren’t taking any chances.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

tags: authority, conspiracy-energy, political-sci-fi, science-fiction, surveillance-vibes, tense-reads, world-building

47 likes

“Few comprehend celibacy. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: adult-themes, character-study, fantasy, identity, inner-life, introspection, loneliness, quiet-pain

55 likes

“I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination. In these rare moments, I prayed, I danced, and I analyzed. I saw that life was good and bad, beautiful and ugly. I understood that I had to dwell on the good and beautiful in order to keep my imagination, sensitivity, and gratitude intact. I knew it would not be easy to maintain this perspective. I knew I would often twist and turn, bend and crack a little, but I also knew that…I would never completely break.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

tags: autobiography, beauty-of-life, dance, determination, faith, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, powerful, prayer, undefeated

240 likes

“Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where the Old Man was to hang, way out from it. But they sang it loud and clear. . . . Blow ye trumpet blow Blow ye trumpet blow. . . . You could hear their voices for a long way, seemed like they lifted up and carried all the way into the sky, lingering in the air long afterward. And up above the church, high above it, a strange black-and-white bird circled ’round, looking for a tree to roost on, a bad tree, I expect, so he could alight upon it and get busy, so that it would someday fall and feed the others.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

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