"That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped."

-- Gail Carson Levine

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.”
“She was by nature a sunny soul”

Source : Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing
“My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.”
“God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.”
“I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.”
“The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time. The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.”

Source : "The Theatre of the Absurd". Book by Martin Esslin, 1961.
“I live and die with the Chicago Cubs”
“We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.”

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