Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.”
― The Optimist's Daughter
― The Optimist's Daughter
“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
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