"Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime."

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Source : Gene Hill (1985). “A Listening Walk --and Other Stories”, p.109, Academic Learning Company LLC

Gene Hill

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“People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.”
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”

Source : One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)
“When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.”
“They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?”
“My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboardâ€”my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.”

Source : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”
“It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”
“It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.”

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