A Hoppy Reader

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Don’t ever fancy, no matter how hard a thing you have to go through, that your experience is unique. This old world has been going on a good many hundred years, and there are precious few situations that haven’t happened over and over again. Cheer up, child; that’s a model letter, and you’re a good little sport!”
― Grace Livingston Hill, The Beloved Stranger

“The danger of evil, the purpose of evil, is that it causes those who would oppose it to become evil also.”
― James Islington, An Echo of Things to Come

“What's the good of a story that ain't got a happy endin'?" the girl demanded, crossing her arms.

Leo considered. "Maybe it does have a happy ending. At least, when it's actually complete. I mean, this part of it is sad. But maybe something good will come from it still? I suppose you have to read all the legends together to know for sure, but I don't know all of them. This one is sad, but there might be a story out there somewhere to make it happy."

The girl nodded. "I'd like to know that story someday.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Veiled Rose