"If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow."

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Source : Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Anne Ursu

#Children Quotes #Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.”
“Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human”
“The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.35, Penguin
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.”
“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.”
“We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial â€“ that we're creating incomplete human beings.”
“In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.”

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