“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”
― Bel-Ami
― Bel-Ami
“but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
― The Princess and the Goblin
― The Princess and the Goblin
“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”
― When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
― When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
“Non c'è niente che sappia di morte, - continuò, - più del sole d'estate, della gran luce, della natura esuberante. Tu fiuti l'aria e senti il bosco, e ti accorgi che piante e bestie se ne infischiano di te. Tutto vive e si macera in se stesso. La natura è la morte...”
― The Moon and the Bonfire
― The Moon and the Bonfire
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