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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
    tags: hope
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: god, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    C.S. Lewis
    “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: christianity
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: book
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
    tags: affirmation, art, connection, story
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Grief dares us to love once more.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    tags: grief
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
    tags: culture, disappearance, intelligence, language, narrative
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “memory is the only way home.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    tags: buddha, suffering
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    tags: energy, expectations
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
    tags: language, silence, women, writing-whisper
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    Roger Rosenblatt
    “A library should be like a pair of open arms.”
    ― Roger Rosenblatt
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    Roger Rosenblatt
    “Why do we write?
    "To make suffering endurable
    To make evil intelligible
    To make justice desirable
    and . . . to make love possible”
    ― Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing
    tags: essay-writing, inspiration-for-writers, writing-instruction
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    Roger Rosenblatt
    “Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.”
    ― Roger Rosenblatt
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    Ursula Hegi
    “Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where—as the stories changed—it transformed you, too.”
    ― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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