“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”
― Joan of Arc
― Joan of Arc
“There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.”
― A Memory of Light
― A Memory of Light
“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”
― Bridge to Terabithia
― Bridge to Terabithia
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
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