"There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world."

“I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (2012). “The Dice Man”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

“Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.”

Source : "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

“The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.”

“You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.”

“When Bernard [Leach] wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.”

“There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.29, Usborne Publishing Ltd

“People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.”

“Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.”