Jonathan Auxier · 400 pages
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“Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“A boy your age should know better than to consider anything impossible.” (p 62)”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“...I have called you forth not because of what you may become, but because of what you already are.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“There is something wonderful that happens between true friends.When they find themselves no longer wasting time with meaningless chatter.Instead, they become content just to share each other's company. It is the opinion of some that this sort of friendship is the only kind worth having. While jokes and anecdotes are nice, they do not compare with the beauty of shared solitude.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“It was a choice between comfortable misery and terrifying uncertainty… professor Cake had given him a choice – a gift that no one had ever offered him before” 68”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“he started with the rascal's questions.
Where was he?
dangling fifty feat above ground choking to death
Were there friends near by?
He could hear his sister strugling by the stairs, but she was too far to help
Were there weapons nearby?
His fishhook was lying useless on the ground below, leaving him only his hands.
But his were no ordinary hands.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“Peter stood back up. 'Well, that was a perfectly useless conversation,' he said with a sigh. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called 'foresight.' It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“it is a well-known fact that brawling begets friendship.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
“In my experience, heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.”
― Jonathan Auxier, quote from Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
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― Seanan McGuire, quote from Every Heart a Doorway
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― Ivan Doig, quote from The Whistling Season
“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, quote from How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water.-
Buddha was also a hobo who paid no attention to the other hobo.-
Chief Rain-In-The-Face, weirder even.-”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Lonesome Traveler
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