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the house and its contents were never the point. The point”—and
is
the land outside th...
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even the wisest of the old forget, sometimes,
Archipelago;
augury,
jumper—his
she showed her care in her cooking.
it was there that she put her patience, and her love.
the words with the greatest power to create both havoc and marvels are these: “I need your help.”
opalescent.
(He would never find it again, that kind of friendship. But once is enough. You need it only once—so that you may know what your human heart is capable of.)
There was true learning there, and a great sweep of understanding. But there was also a love of procedure and resistance to change. There was arrogance etched on some of those mouths.
place of sheet music, he had a novel propped up. Every now and then he licked a finger and turned the page.
Clever!!!
We none of us expected this. That is, in general, the nature of adventures.
Adventurers tend to smell. The great epic tales stank, I think, more than the historians give them credit for.”
nereid. The creature spoke. “Lóclóca! Su ārstafasa? Su andgietu glimt?”
A created language -- a la Tolkien📚
punts,
“Berserkers do not weep,” he said. “And they do not love. How could they, when they mustn’t fear? Love has fear baked into it.”
why tell truth to those not yet prepared to receive it? The riddles ensure that we tell our secrets to those who have already learned how to think.”
bifurcated.
“For instance: consider the greatest riddle of all—what you should do with your one brief life? The answer is different for each person. There is no neat answer, though many have tried to offer one. There are no answers to being alive. There are only strong pieces of advice.”
stop expecting life to get easier. It never does; that is not where its goodness lies.
She wept in a way she had not wept before, for love torn away and protection
failed and unbearable mistakes.
a sigh that
Good description🌲
was as ancient as the forest.
jaculus
her whole face took on the look of an arrow pointed at a question.
parabola
Jealousy is not like anything else. It is a locust. It eats a great deal that cannot be spared.
“That is why great power must never reside in only one person. It must be shared.”
“It must be spread, among as many good women and men as can be found; not because it is kind or polite or fair, but because it is the only way to beat back against horror.”
It’s easy to forget as an adult how huge an influence you can have on a small child’s life simply by being funny and warm and lovingly noticing.
The Transformations of John Donne (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize), Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures, and Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. She
