Quotes - Claire Banschbach (Midland, TX) Showing 1-30 of 72

#1

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2635 likes

#2

“We'll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won't rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is restored to the throne. - Corin”
― Claire M. Banschbach, The Rise of Aredor

tags: adventure, fantasy

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#3

“We hear rumors of a man who leads a rebellion in the forest, determined to drive the invader out. It's said wherever wolf howls or hawk cries, he appears.”
― Claire M. Banschbach, The Rise of Aredor

tags: adventure, fantasy

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#4

“When have I rebelled?"
"When have you ever obeyed?”
― Shannon McDermott, The Valley of Decision

tags: faith, obey

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#5

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#6

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

1037 likes

#7

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81646 likes

#8

“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: aslan, narnia

1801 likes

#9

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”
― Molly Evangeline

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#10

“You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.”
― Claire M. Banschbach, The Rise of Aredor

tags: adventure, fantasy

1 likes

#11

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

2712 likes

#12

“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”
― Kathryn Worth, They Loved to Laugh

tags: air, clarity, heavens, nature, sky, space, thought

11 likes

#13

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2757 likes

#14

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

1098 likes

#15

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

1685 likes

#16

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12675 likes

#17

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135108 likes

#18

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

2306 likes

#19

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1818 likes

#20

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

5669 likes

#21

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

2976 likes

#22

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

9020 likes

#23

“Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.”
― Mary Papas

tags: authors, writing

17 likes

#24

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

tags: adventure, love, romance

985 likes

#25

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

10442 likes

#26

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: adult, childishness, maturity

694 likes

#27

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

2842 likes

#28