“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― The Book of Lost Things
― The Book of Lost Things
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― The Prophet
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― The Prophet
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