#ck

Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#life

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character. ↗

— Chuck Black

#kingdom-s-edge #life

I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #eli-stock #life #sarah-dessen #life

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#left-off #pick #young #life

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do! ↗

— C.K. Webb

#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #quicken #truth #life

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales. ↗

— Jill Paton Walsh

#stepchildren #wicked #life

To live is so startling, it leaves very little time for anything else. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#life #life

As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment. ↗

— Anne Rice

#lestat #mayfair #mona #quinn #taltos

One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#philosophy #wicked #witch #life