Casandra Langridge

“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like the rest of us.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“When does the enchantment start?
We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains.
"It started when the earth was born." Her eyes was closed. Her face was golden in the setting sun. "It never stops. It is, always. It's just here."
So what do we do?"
She smiled. "That's the secret." Her cupped hands rested in her lap. "We do nothing. Or as close to nothing as we can." Her face turned slowly to me, though her eyes remained closed. "Have you ever done nothing?"
I laughed. "My mother thinks I do it all the time."
"Don't tell her I said so, but your mother is wrong." She turned back to the sun. "It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside of us."
"That's bad?" I said.
"It's bad if we want to know what's going on outside ourselves."
"Don't we have eyes and ears for that?"
She nodded. "They're okay most of the time. But sometimes they just get in the way. The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then maybe the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Well, said the haut prince, this day must noble knights joust.”
― Sir Thomas Malory

“Never think of those you missed, who were left without help. Only think of the contribution you made to those you did help.’ This is what my guardian had taught me. She had been the last protector before me. She should have been there still and I, a carefree young man but life was not perfect.”
― Aaron D. Key, Damon Ich