Ana Rattin

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“That's a poet.'
'I thought you said it was a bo-at.'
'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?'
'Why, a thing to sail on the water in.'
'Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'
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'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“You're human," he whispered. And I'd always remember those words. "That's what I've always told you. If grace was only for small mistakes, would it really be grace? What if grace is for the things we can't make amends for?”
― Josiah DeGraaf, A Study of Shattered Spells

“But is it not rather that art rescues nature from the weary and sated regards of our senses, and the degrading injustice of our anxious everyday life, and, appealing to the imagination, which dwells apart, reveals Nature in some degree as she really is, and as she represents herself to the eye of the child, whose everyday life, fearless and unambitious, meets the true import of the wonder-teeming world around him, and rejoices therein without questioning?”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women