JennLynn

“(N.B. I think this is from a hymn.)
O joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.”
― Pamela Porter, I'll Be Watching

“When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.

[The New York Times interview, 2000]”
― Philip Pullman

“I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor