“It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.”
― The Distant Hours
― The Distant Hours
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
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“The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us
that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.”
― Something Like Fate
that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.”
― Something Like Fate
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