“It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."
The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.”
― The Magic of Oz
The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.”
― The Magic of Oz
“I've changed my mind. I don't want to be a squirrel any more. I'd rather be a bird!”
― Moonrise
― Moonrise
“There are no happy endings, endings are sad-so let's have a happy beginning and a happy middle.”
― A Light in the Attic
― A Light in the Attic
“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― The Waste Land
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― The Waste Land
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