Cindy

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
― Fred Rogers

“I am not dead" argued Edward. "There are nefarious villains who would have you believe I died. But any accounts of my demise have been grossly exaggerated, I assure you, for here I am, very much alive.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“Sleep now, my darling. Don't you cry." "Mommy's gonna stay with you all through the night." "Ne'er shall you worry. Ne'er shall you mourn..." "you won't see your little gray horse no more" "He ain't in the field. No, he's long gone..." "But you'll see his sweet face again 'fore long." "It all comes around with the moon and the sun, but Mommy's gonna stay here till all is done.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet