"The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves."

-- Roald Dahl

#Children Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.”
“They say that the best counsel is that of woman.”

Source : "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.
“prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.”
“The sun still shines.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sophie Magdalena Scholl". "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days", 2005.
“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.”
“I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.”
“Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.”

Source : David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.50, BenBella Books, Inc.
“I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.”

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