“Every living thing is precious somehow.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“The strongest bonds are of the heart.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“The best way to protect something is to set it free.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“For a true name holds true power.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“Everything is connected to everything else.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“The heart can see things invisible to the eye.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
T.A. Barron
Born place: in Harvard, Massachusetts, The United States
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“Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”
― Joe Haldeman, quote from The Forever War
“The race is to the driven, not the swift.”
― John Jakes, quote from North and South
“And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?'
Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from About a Boy
“Her eyes weren't blinking. There was still something almost dead in them, something very far away. She seemed to be seeing all the way through to the back of him and beyond, out into the cold space of the future in which they would both soon be dead, out into the nothingness that Lalitha and his mother and his father had already passed into, and yet she was looking straight into his eyes, and he could feel her getting warmer by the minute. And so he stopped looking at her eyes and started looking into them, returning their look before it was too late, before this connection between life and what came after life was lost, and let her see all the vileness inside him, all the hatreds of two thousand solitary nights, while the two of them were still with the void in which the sum of everything they'd ever said or done, every pain they'd inflicted, every joy they'd shared, would weigh less than the smallest feather on the wind.”
― Jonathan Franzen, quote from Freedom
“Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.”
― quote from Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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