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"I love this cheeky little story. Since Neil Gaiman narrates it himself, it’s even more fun to listen to the audiobook. The random (albeit brief) sex scene in chapter 1 is always a jump scare. This is NOT a kid’s fairytale lol. (I believe Neil Gaiman said himself that when he set out to write this story, he wanted to create a fairytale for adults)" — Jul 15, 2026 12:34PM
"I love this cheeky little story. Since Neil Gaiman narrates it himself, it’s even more fun to listen to the audiobook. The random (albeit brief) sex scene in chapter 1 is always a jump scare. This is NOT a kid’s fairytale lol. (I believe Neil Gaiman said himself that when he set out to write this story, he wanted to create a fairytale for adults)" — Jul 15, 2026 12:34PM
“He always wants to know everything about school, but not like other adults, who only want to know if Noah is behaving. Grandpa wants to know if the school is behaving. It hardly ever is.”
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“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be ‘good’. We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way—centred on money or pleasure or ambition—and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you could not do. As He said, a thistle cannot produce figs. If I am a field that contains nothing but grass-seed, I cannot produce wheat. Cutting the grass may keep it short: but I shall still produce grass and no wheat. If I want to produce wheat, the change must go deeper than the surface. I must be ploughed up and re-sown.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“They wanted her to just get up, stand, start to walk. As if grief were a pool you could simply step out of.
In reality, it was quicksand and heat. A rough entry, but warm and inviting once you let go.”
― The Women
In reality, it was quicksand and heat. A rough entry, but warm and inviting once you let go.”
― The Women
“That's right," said Gandalf. "Let's have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“I miss all our most ordinary things. Breakfast on the veranda. Weeds in the flower beds.”
She takes a breath, then answers:
“I miss the dawn. The way it stamped its feet at the end of the water, increasingly frustrated and impatient, until there was no more holding back the sun. The way it sparkled right across the lake, reached the stones by the jetty and came onto land, it’s warm hands in our garden, pouring gentle light into our house, letting us kick off the covers and start the day. I miss you then, darling sleepy you. Miss you there.”
“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.”
“An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
She laughs. Old eyes, new sunlight, and he still remembers how it felt to fall in love. The rain hasn’t arrived yet.
They dance on the shortcut until darkness falls.”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
She takes a breath, then answers:
“I miss the dawn. The way it stamped its feet at the end of the water, increasingly frustrated and impatient, until there was no more holding back the sun. The way it sparkled right across the lake, reached the stones by the jetty and came onto land, it’s warm hands in our garden, pouring gentle light into our house, letting us kick off the covers and start the day. I miss you then, darling sleepy you. Miss you there.”
“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.”
“An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
She laughs. Old eyes, new sunlight, and he still remembers how it felt to fall in love. The rain hasn’t arrived yet.
They dance on the shortcut until darkness falls.”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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