Nick Swarbrick

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“At the end of day, he looked out and saw that they were safe under ravens.”
― Alan Garner, Boneland

“To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of:”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I struggle impotently to express who I really am. Often I would confess these sins as I kneel and gabble my “Bless-me-Father-for-I-have-sinned …” but it is suffering too deep for speech, and true guilt almost too deep for conscious knowledge.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life