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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
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“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
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