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“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You see, if people knew that dolls could do things, they would make them work. So, perhaps, they have promised each other to keep it a secret.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“What I believe about dolls," she said, "is that they can do things they will not let us know about. Perhaps, really, Emily can read and talk and walk, but she will only do it when people are out of the room. That is her secret. You see, if people knew that dolls could do things, they would make them work. So, perhaps, they have promised each other to keep it a secret. If you stay in the room, Emily will just sit there and stare; but if you go out, she will begin to read, perhaps, or go and look out of the window. Then if she heard either of us coming, she would just run back and jump into her chair and pretend she had been there all the time.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“We are just the same - I am only a Little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”
― A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. The whole secret is in being pliable.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines.

That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness. ”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“I never realized how uncomfortable I am around happy people before.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“I had a wild thought there, beneath that sky. I will eat these herbs. Then whatever is truly in me, let it be out, at last. I brought them to my mouth. But my courage failed. What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I came for her, but there was no one who would come for me. The thought was steadying. After all, I had been alone my whole life.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure not to dishonor me."

"I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Name one hero who was happy. You can’t.’
‘I can’t.’
‘I know. They never let you be famous and happy. I’ll tell you a secret.’
‘Tell me.’
‘I’m going to be the first. Swear it.’
‘Why me?’
‘Because you’re the reason.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“They never let you be famous AND happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I knew something of what it was to be alone. Of how another's good fortune pricked like a goad.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles of Ac

“And now I understand what you tried to say to me. How you suffered for your sanity...”
― Don McLean

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

“...the collective madness which is called normality... the madness that masquerades as sanity... For what is the perception of madness, but the perceiver's perception of sanity? What is that perception but what collective society has decreed sanity to be?”
― David Icke

“Real freedom - where I could think the unthinkable and say the unstable and I give a damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And get it is there for the taking whenever they choose.”
― David Icke, Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told By David Icke