"When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are."

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Source : David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.151, Hachette UK

David Almond

#Growing Up Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.”

Source : Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; itâ€™s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
“Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.”
“Surround yourself with good people, surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.”
“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example. This professionalization is a tragedy. Hand in hand with this - and I have no idea what the causal relations are - there has been a rise in the idea of The Author, so that today one often has the impression that what's selling the book is not the book but the author.”
“They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.”
“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back”

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