“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“you find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax. all you need is a book”
― Dr. Seuss, quote from The Cat in the Hat
“After that, he couldn't be sure how it happened, but she wasn't crying anymore and he wasn't thinking. At all. His hands were underneath her sweater, touching every inch of her warm, smooth skin; they were kissing like two condemned people suddenly given a reprieve; and his feeling of calm morphed into happiness so intense, he'd swear his blood was singing.”
― Trinity Faegen, quote from The Redemption of Ajax
“Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Gut Symmetries
“Foul weather didn't know where to have him.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth
“We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, quote from Address Unknown
“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”
― Marlen Haushofer, quote from The Wall
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