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“I should be sorry if I have only succeeded in entertaining them; I wished to make them better.”
― George Frederick Handel

“That someone would mourn her death made her long to live in the fiercest way."

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― H. L. Burke

“Life, precious life, always bound to her by a spider's thread when everyone else had an iron chain. (Spice Bringer)”
― H. L. Burke

“Some live a long life and touch no one, while others lose their lives too soon, but touch everyone.”
― Gail McWilliams, Stuck or Positioned; Its Your Choice

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“1. Write every day
2. Write what interests you.
3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.)
4. Write with honest emotion
5. Be careful of being facile
6. Be wary of preaching
7. Be prepared for serendipity

Finally I would remind you of something that Churchill told a group of school boys: "Never give up. Never give up. Never, never, never give up.”
― Jane Yolen

“When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.”
― Elise Stokes, Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Love without power is ghostly, but power without love is deadly”
― Dianne Astle

“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

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.”
― Ronald Reagan

“There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien