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“Appeasement. It's a slippery slope." [...] "It means you want to work with the enemy. It means you'd rather join him than beat him.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in ‘just being’. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft