“Oh, if I could choose,” said Mabel, “of course I’d marry a brigand, and live in his mountain fastness, and be kind to his captives and help them to escape and-“ “You’ll be a real treasure to your husband.” said Gerald.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“If you're lucky enough to be different, don't you ever changed" - Taylor Swift”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“Aunt Emily says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us."
"They little know," Gerald answered, "how often we do it to please them.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“Don't bother about believing it, if you don't like it,' said the Princess. 'It doesn't so much matter what you believe as what I am.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening. And, as I am always telling you, the most wonderful things happen to all sorts of people, only you never hear about them because the people think that no one will believe their stories, and so they don't tell them to anyone except me. And they tell me, because they know that I can believe anything.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time."
And yet they do.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“It is a moment, and it is eternity. It is the centre of the universe and it is the universe itself. The eternal light rests on and illuminates the eternal heart of things.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“There are a thousand spears in my back,' said a little sharp voice, 'and they are all devoted to the Princess and to her alone.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you, and all that you do turns out admirably.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“but what's the use of belonging anywhere if you're invisible?”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit
Born place: in Kennington, Surrey, The United Kingdom
Born date August 15, 1858
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“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.”
― Susan Sontag, quote from Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw centre, to reimagine our relation to it.”
― David Whyte, quote from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Your problem is that you have never fully understood the power of being a desired woman.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“I loved the learning, and I think a part of me felt afraid that a diploma would symbolize that my learning days had come to an end.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Source
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
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