“Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons
“A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“لم يكن واضحا تماما فى ذهنى أن تلك الشعوب فى البلاد الاخرى تريد بالفعل ان تحيا مثلنا ,فالاحصائيات المعتمدة لدينا عن العنف والبطالة والايذاء الجسدى المترتب على تعاطى المخدرات والطلاق والجريمة كل هذا يشير الى انه رغم ان مجتمعنا من اغنى المجتمعات فى التاريخ الا ان هذا لا ينفى ابدا انه من أقل المجتمعات احساسا بالسعادة
فلماذا نريد من الاخرين ان يحاكونا”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn’t matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.’ ‘Now?”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
“Stop it, you two!” Spiderleg’s stern mew echoed around the hollow as he separated his kits. “We were just playing,” Toadkit complained. “Well, play something quieter!” Spiderleg snapped. “I don’t envy you, Graystripe. Two kits are hard enough.” Then he yelped in pain. “When I told you to play something else, Toadkit, I didn’t mean attacking my tail!”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
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