“Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings.
That's how it is in Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare was wrong.
Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again.
And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
That's how it is in Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare was wrong.
Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again.
And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
― Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
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