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How many times had she pushed her hand against the back wall of a wardrobe or stood in front of a painting wishing she could jump into it? How often had she wished for a magic ring or button, a hidden passageway, a garden gate grown over in ivy that would transport her to some magical land?
“There must be something better, I know it in my heart,”
‘I earned these scars,’ he said, ‘so you could learn the tongue of your elders and ancestors.’”
Scars help us remember.
“I didn’t want it to be true.”
The glory of a king comes from neither wealth nor finery but from the well-being of his people.
the myth of redemptive violence is just that, a myth. Violence solves a problem in the way gasoline solves a fire. There are other paths. They are, almost always, more difficult. Seek them out.”
“You did not know because you did not think to ask. You did not wonder what the cost of this magic would be, to yourself or others. But such is the way of those who have never paid for much.”
“But there’s value in keeping people safe until that time,” Jason said. “You can’t save people forever, but if you can do it today, you should. People are . . .” He paused. He wasn’t sure how to say the next bit. “People are the most important thing in the world. Anything else can be replaced, but people . . . Each one is unique, and when a person dies, they never come again. They’re gone forever. Other people might come but not that one. So we have to protect them while we can. And if it’s someone you love . . . you should protect them no matter what.”
When you see this sort of injustice in the world, you always follow the money. Who benefits? Who loses? Then you know what kind of game is being played.”
“Courage,” she said. “I don’t need hope anymore, Jason. I know what’s coming. I need courage to face it.”
To change the world, change first a heart.
Some people got rich off of slavery, but that’s not an argument for it, that’s a sign of the sickness.”
She knew this much: she was still benefiting from this unjust system. She was forcing everyone else to change when she hadn’t changed herself. It was her heart that needed to change, her heart that could change the world.
“There are more choices than those,”
To see another is the birth of Compassion.
She was looking for those places where she could breathe only because others were holding their breath. And she planned to take a sword to each and every place she discovered.
“The glory of a king comes from neither wealth nor finery but from the well-being of his people.
“A true king must not pretend to be a servant, but rather become one.”
But one day the King of Stories will return—
“It is the small things of the world which are most important,”
“They have deserted me, but I have not deserted them.”
He believes in the hopeful vision of those two fantasy worlds in particular: the Stone Table will always be broken; the King will always return; love and friendship empower us and change the world.
