“Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.”
― The Monsters of Templeton
― The Monsters of Templeton
“I am haunted by humans.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight; the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.”
― The Monsters of Templeton
― The Monsters of Templeton
“Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
― Matilda
― Matilda
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