“Steeds weer keek ik vanuit het klaslokaal naar buiten, naar de vrijheid van de vogels in de boom op het schoolplein. Als kind moest je van kooitje naar kooitje, gekortwiekt door regels en leerplicht en ‘zo hoort het nu eenmaal’.
Ooit zou ik daarboven uitstijgen, nam ik me voor.
Ooit zou ik vliegen.”
― Zondagskind
Ooit zou ik daarboven uitstijgen, nam ik me voor.
Ooit zou ik vliegen.”
― Zondagskind
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― The Secret Garden
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― The Secret Garden
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
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“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
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