"Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil."

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Source : Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Susan Cooper

#Uncles Quotes #Hero Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.”

Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
“I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.”
“Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.”
“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
“Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.”
“Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.”

Source : Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.150, Oxford University Press - Children
“I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.”

Source : Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.
“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.”

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