The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going.

‘If there’s so much of it, it couldn’t be very valuable,’

the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”

as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?

Just because you have a choice, it doesn’t mean that any of them has to be right.”

“If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult.

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”

so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”