"Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination."

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Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

Lauren DeStefano

#Dark Quotes #Long Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
“Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.”
“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

Source : L Frank Baum (2014). “OZ Complete Collection with illustrated Wizard of Oz”, p.381, Ageless Reads
“A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”
“Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.”
“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”
“With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.”
“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”

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