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Some people like to talk about how resilient kids are, but these were people who’d forgotten how hard everything hit you when you were a kid.
‘The only wishes ever granted—’” “‘—are the wishes of brave children who keep on wishing even when it seems no one’s listening because someone somewhere always is,
“‘Hope is the thing with feathers,’ the lovely Miss Emily Dickinson once wrote. Well, if that’s the case, then a wish is a thing with black feathers.”
Dangerous things, wishes. Sometimes they come to you when you call. Sometimes they fly away after biting you.”
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.
“God—or whoever is in charge of this planet—got drunk on the job one day and decided to give me the gift of writing. The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set that gift on a high shelf so it won’t get dinged up and nobody can make fun of me for playing with it.” He smiled until the crinkles at the corners of his eyes were deep enough to hide state secrets. “Or I can have fun with it and play with the gift I was given until the engine burns out and the wheels come off. I decided to play.
But she never forgot what Jack Masterson said in reply. “Hugo, always be quiet when a heart is breaking.”
The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.’
“You can’t win until you face your fears. Until you face your fears, your fears are winning.”
“Craft is what they call artwork that’s useful to humanity,”
“I’m a modern artist.” He put his hands behind his head. “My muse is the fear of poverty and obscurity.”
“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we’re most afraid of. And the thing we’re most afraid of is often the thing we most want.
“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can’t cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
“Why do only brave kids get their wishes granted?” she asked. “Because only brave children know that wishing is never enough. You have to try to make your own wishes come true.
