Annarella

“Nozy Cat lifted one sleepy eyelid, and his marble blue eye glared at her for interrupting his sacred nap. He wore a yellow collar with little red stars printed on it. His second eyelid also opened, and he gave them his irritated blue-eyed glare.”
― lyn key, Nozy Cat 1

“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Gli antichi stoici parlavano del “costruire la propria statua”, non nel senso di autoincensarsi, ma di fare della propria vita un capolavoro, un’opera di quotidiana scultura.”
― Anonymous

“Se noi ci accostiamo alla natura e all’ambiente senza questa apertura allo stupore e alla meraviglia, se non parliamo più il linguaggio della fraternità e della bellezza nella nostra relazione con il mondo, i nostri atteggiamenti saranno quelli del dominatore, del consumatore o del mero sfruttatore delle risorse naturali, incapace di porre un limite ai suoi interessi immediati. Viceversa, se noi ci sentiamo intimamente uniti a tutto ciò che esiste, la sobrietà e la cura scaturiranno in maniera spontanea.”
― Anonymous