Charmaine (CharmySketches)

“The spider does not spin its web in a heartbeat, nor does the albatross fly across oceans with a few flaps of its wings. Many would consider what they do impossible, and yet, they still complete their tasks without fail, because they simply...start.”
― Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox

“it is through Nature that we come to understand the proper use of things. The enormous importance of this for our topic is that, since the ends of things are intrinsic to them, man does not get to make them up, but only to discover them through the use of his reason. He can then choose to conform his behavior to these ends in a life of virtue or to frustrate them in a life of vice. He can choose to become fully human or to dehumanize himself.”
― Robert R. Reilly, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything

“It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“How ones range of interests grows! Do you find a sort of double process going on with relation to books—that while the number of subjects one wants to read is increasing, the number of books on each which you find worth reading steadily decreases.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis