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“But he is a Beast,” said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”
“Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper and ink and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen...”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
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“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.”
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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