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“I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.”
― Margaret Wise Brown
― Margaret Wise Brown
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
“Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.”
― Eddie Izzard
― Eddie Izzard
“The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings of early childhood, remain indelible.”
― Esphyr Slobodkina
― Esphyr Slobodkina
“For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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