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“It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn’t know it. You didn’t feel its departure. You only really knew it when it was restored, like some rare wild bird which lived and sang within you not by decree but by choice.”
― Needful Things
― Needful Things
“I’ll try, Aunt Evvie.”
“Yes—I know you will. Trying—that’s built into you, too.” Aunt Evvie
looked her over closely. “You were a fair child, and a likely child, although you
weren’t ever a lucky child. Well, luck is for fools. It’s all they have to hope for,
poor devils. It strikes me that you are still likely and fair, and that’s the
important thing. I think you’ll make out.”
― Needful Things
“Yes—I know you will. Trying—that’s built into you, too.” Aunt Evvie
looked her over closely. “You were a fair child, and a likely child, although you
weren’t ever a lucky child. Well, luck is for fools. It’s all they have to hope for,
poor devils. It strikes me that you are still likely and fair, and that’s the
important thing. I think you’ll make out.”
― Needful Things
“He had no psychic powers, but there was one power he did have: he was the grownup. The adult.”
― The Institute
― The Institute
“Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way.”
― A Nameless Witch
― A Nameless Witch
“Once, when I was a child, I dreamed that Grimbeard the Ghastly, on the deck of his ship The Endless Journey, threw the sword Endeavor up into the air. Up and up it spun, through the inky blackness, across the cavernous span of a hundred years, until, entirely of its own accord, my own left hand sprang out of space and stars and never-ending time and caught it. Now that I am so very old, I am dreaming once again. And in my dream, I am the one throwing the sword. It is spinning now, in the black starlit waters of my dream, right above your head, dear reader. A sword that may look second-best, and secondhand, but but carries the memories of a thousand lost fights, a history lesson in itself. Reach out, and catch it by the hilt. Swear by its name, Endeavor, to do your utmost to make the world a better place than when you arrived in it. For look! There will be dragons all around you, as camouflaged as a Stealth Dragon.”
― How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
― How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
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