"In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world."

-- E. B. Lewis

#Our World Quotes #Color Quotes #Whimsical Quotes

“Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.”
“I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?”
“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”
“The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Donâ€™t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Donâ€™t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.”
“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”
“Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."”
“The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.196
“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.”

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