"What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?"

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Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin

Sylvia Engdahl

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“Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.”
“Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.”
“Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.”
“Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.”

Source : Twitter post from May 20, 2015
“God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.”
“It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.”

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