"She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone."

-- Katherine Paterson

#Home Quotes #Moon Quotes #Self Quotes

“The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.”

Source : "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.
“Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

Source : "Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.
“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
“The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.”
“And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.”
“All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.”
“Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.”

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