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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us”
― The Sending
― The Sending
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
― Blackwood Farm
― Blackwood Farm
“I highly recommend enforced boredom as a way to develop your imagination. But don’t take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: “There’s a lot to learn for wasting time.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must.”
― The First Men in the Moon
― The First Men in the Moon
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