#fiction

Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible! ↗

— Garry E. Lewis

#mystery-suspense #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-horror #young-adult-mystery-s #dreams

Vibrations caused by powerful turbines stirred Kathy from a dream centered around a funeral. Her eyes flicked open, face dry, and she had no idea where she was. In her dream, she saw crystalline silver spiders again, weaving their way through the graveyard, leaving trails of silver webs over corpses, binding them for some unknown purpose in the cold dark earth. ↗

— Michael Offutt

#dreams

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #life

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. ↗

— James P. Carse

#non-fiction #philosophy #psychology #education

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#historical-fiction #history #reading #education

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— George Macaulay Trevelyan

#history #nonfiction #reading #social-commentary #education

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever. ↗

— J.Z. Colby

#educational #personal-power #science-fiction #young-adult #education

I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine. ↗

— Elizabeth Newton

#fiction #humour #sci-fi #science-fiction #train

I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction-romance #utopia #faith

I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting them,” he said. “I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#anxiety #children #dating #faith #fear