#ld

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths. ↗

— Larry Itejere

#children-s-books #fantasy-fiction #teen-fantasy #dreams

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#world #nothing

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ↗

— Mark Twain

#world #nothing

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fighting #peace #soldiers #war #problems

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough? ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#childhood #children #parenting #play #miracles

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#children

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#fairies #fantasy #peter-pan #children

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. ↗

— Tears For Fears

#donnie-darko #gary-jules #lyrics #mad-world #dreams

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#fairies #fantasy #loss-of-innocence #poetry #sorrow

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#philip-pullman #young-adult #children