Gracie McBride
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“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
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