"There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children."

-- Zane Grey

#Children Quotes #Mind Quotes #Hours Quotes

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
“Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.”
“[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins...”
“Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.”
“Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.”
“But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.”
“If people are saying youâ€™re wrong thatâ€™s probably a good sign that youâ€™re a genius.”
“I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.”

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

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