"Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be."

-- Francis Spufford

#Song Quotes #Reading Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Jan 25, 2017
“Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.”
“She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.”
“I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.”
“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.”
“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin
“Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
“When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.”

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