A Hoppy Reader

“Adventures are not predictable and moderately exciting, with predetermined outcomes. Adventures are things going wrong: situations you don't expect, friends who betray you, equipment that fails when you most need it, enemies who are stronger and even smarter than you, and the possibility--no, the certainty, at times--that you will be injured or die. And it is for the real adventures--the ones where your knowledge, your skills, and your strength of character are necessary to complete your assigned mission--that the carefully designed training adventures here in the Academy prepare you.”
― Elizabeth Moon, Into the Fire

“You know it really doesn’t matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we’ve been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can’t impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won’t be able to do it any better.”
― Grace Livingston Hill, Re-Creations

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

“Please, Aslan," said Lucy, "what do you call soon?"
"I call all times soon", said Aslan.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader