There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by ma...
She wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they could only walk when they were here - wherever here was.
P'raps it will be like that and p'raps it won't. And p'raps if it is, it would have been like that anyway. I don't care. I'm still going to wait here for Lettie Hempstock, and she's going to come back...
Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. That’s why they’re monsters. And as for grown-ups . . . She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, I’m going to tell you something importa...
Now all we have to worry about is all the other books, and, of course, life, which is huge and complicated and will not warn you before it hurts you.
Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.
Nenhum homem, afirmou Donne, , mas estava errado. Se não fôssemos ilhas, perder-nos-íamos, afogados nas tragédias uns dos outros.
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.
I’m very clever,’ said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.
It's like you said the other day, said Adam. You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really...
It's just that I get distracted, and I get Lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days........When, you know, I just want to Hide or Scream or Bleed or something, and.....All that...
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work...
It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices.
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it we...
It begins, as most things begin, with a song.
Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million thin...
If you can't be happy where you are, you can't be happy anywhere
If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water. The Horror place is a rather more dangerous place, or it should be: you can walk around Fantasy...
If I wasn’t born, what am I doing here?’ ‘You’re an independent temporal nexus, chronosynclastically established as an inverse...’ He saw her expression, and stopped. ‘You’re telling me it’s timey-wim...