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“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

“Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

“And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.”
― Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

“Those who write for children are trying to arm them for the life ahead with everything we can find that is true. And perhaps, also, secretly, to arm adults against those necessary compromises and necessary heartbreaks that life involves: to remind them that there are and always will be great, sustaining truths to which we can return.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise