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“Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.”
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“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.”
― Sugar Cookies: A Loving Picture Book About Learning Words of Love for Kids
― Sugar Cookies: A Loving Picture Book About Learning Words of Love for Kids
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.”
― Calvin and Hobbes
― Calvin and Hobbes
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