“Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“This was why love was so dangerous. Love turns the whole world into a garden, so beguiling it was easy to forget that rose petals were as ephemeral as feelings, eventually they would wilt and die, leaving nothing but the thorns.” Stephanie Garber, Legendary “We … Continue reading Water the Thorns to Get the Roses
“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.”
― Terry Pratchett, Meditations on Middle-Earth
Another chance to quote my favourite author, Terry Pratchett. This time not from one of his works set in his own universe, aka Discworld, but from an essay he wrote about J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings. Nevertheless, I think the theme needs the photo of a librarian to be complete.
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
― Anais Nin
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“Promise me we’ll stay together, okay?” His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. “You and me.”
“I promise,” I say.
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
“But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana
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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
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“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Words of Wisdom Y24 #5
Paula references W.B.Yeats in her April Words of Wisdom with a quote where he sees life as a spiral leading upward. The German poet Hermann Hesse, just twelve years Yeats’ junior, expressed a very similar thought when he said: We are not going in circles, … Continue reading Stepping Ever Upward
“Patience, grasshopper,” said Maia. “Good things come to those who wait.”“I always thought that was ‘Good things come to those who do the wave,’” said Simon. “No wonder I’ve been so confused all my life.” Cassandra Clare, City of Glass Words of Wisdom – Y24 … Continue reading Confusion, Patience and Perception
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