Jane Scholey

“Be who you are”
― Rob Biddulph, Odd Dog Out

“Roland searched for a place that would be safe to climb, and found a staircase on the exposed inner wall of a house. The top step was the highest part of the house: everything above it, including the bedroom floor, had been knocked down. Roland tested his weight, but the wood was firm, so he went up.”
― Alan Garner, Elidor

“It was a small bothy, one step brought us to meet in the midst of it; my arms were around him, and his around me, the strong right arm and the maimed left that felt sapless and brittle as a bit of dead stick, and we held fast together, and wept somewhat, each into the hollow of the other’s shoulder. Maybe it is easier to weep when one grows old, than it was in the flower of life.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

“I have come back once more to you all … once more … ‘ Pan paused, and in the silence not a foot moved or a wing rustled, ‘and then I shall indeed be gone until that day when we shall all return, yes, all, gnomes and wild forgotten things alike, to the land where once we lived.”
― B.B., The Little Grey Men