“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”
“you find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax. all you need is a book”
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land; spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning, the same pulling at the chain—until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”
“and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse.”
“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
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