“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
“It’s easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
“And weren’t, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren’t. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.” – Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn’t broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn’t change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.” ― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient
I love ALL of these! I was going to tell you which I liked best but then I couldn’t pick! Great selection 🙂
Thanks!