“Not at all,’ said Moon-Face, leading them up a little lane through the”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“Now we’ll get back home,’ he said. ‘I’m a bit tired of this land. Come on, Bears, help me to get the cottage back safely!’ He didn’t do the same magic as before. He drew a circle on the floor in blue chalk and the Three Bears stood inside, holding paws. Moon-Face”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“Nobody said any more. The girls and Rick felt very tired, and after some hot chocolate and baked”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“remember what had happened. ‘I’ll just peep up through the hole in the cloud and see”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point in space, the poet sees everything that happens in one point in time. Lost in thought, he taps his knee with his wandlike pencil, and at the same instant a car (New York license plate) passes along the road, a child bangs the screen door of a neighbouring porch, an old man yawns in a misty Turkestan orchard, a granule of cinder-grey sand is rolled by the wind on Venus, a Docteur Jacques Hirsch in Grenoble puts on his reading glasses, and trillions of other such trifles occur - all forming an instantaneous and transparent organism of events, of which the poet (sitting in a lawn chair in Ithaca, N.Y.) is the nucleus.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Speak, Memory
“Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car?
-Melissa”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Blue Noon
“The loveliest things in life are but shadows; they come and go, and change and fade away…”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Martin Chuzzlewit
“I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Son of a Witch
“Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Tick Tock
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