I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
The witch was as old as the mulberry treeShe lived in the house of a hundred clocksShe sold storms and sorrows and calmed the seaAnd she kept her life in a box.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
You're playing with fire, she warned him.That's how I know I'm alive.
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.
They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all numbers are by their nature correct. Well, except for Pi, of course. I can't be doing with Pi....
Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. Junk! She continued. Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, trip...
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never diffic...
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; thatwitches are often betrayed by their appetites;dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;hearts can be wel...
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?
And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who...
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or...
She didn't have a daddy? I asked.No.Did you have a daddy?You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.
One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].
It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Fr...
Black as night, sweet as sin.