“I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.”
― A Snicker of Magic
― A Snicker of Magic
“The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There
“That’s all right,” said Edmund. “Between ourselves, you haven’t been as bad as I was on my first trip to Narnia. You were only an ass, but I was a traitor.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
“I sat enchanted, far from my gods, adrift in the boat of spices, in the sigh of the South, in the net of the wheeling stars, in the country of dolphins.”
― A Stranger in Olondria
― A Stranger in Olondria
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that’s why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That’s what he gets from rowing.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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