“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend.”
― The Birchbark House
― The Birchbark House
“Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up.”
― Holes
― Holes
“What kind of a place is Expectations?" inquired Milo, unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity.
"Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
"Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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