“Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
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