"I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams."

-- Muriel Spark

#Dream Quotes #Character Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
“The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.”
“Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.”
“Love is ever new because it never groweth old.”
“O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .”
“I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.”
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

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