"The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense."

-- Ursula Vernon

#Book Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.”
“I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'”
“Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive”
“Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.”

Source : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics
“When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.”
“My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.”
“All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.”
“That teacher teaches best who teaches least.”

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