"I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood."

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Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.160, Macmillan

Jo Walton

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“Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.”

Source : Melody Beattie (2013). “Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”
“Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.”
“Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.”

Source : "Foundation Axioms" of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration, 1833.
“So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.”
“Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.”
“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”
“Personality is that which is most intimate to meâ€”that by which I mustÂ act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God; and He has given to me this pearl of greatÂ Â price. It is an immortal treasure; it is mine, it is His, and no man shallÂ pluck it out of His hand.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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