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Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks. ↗


— Maggie Stiefvater


#raven-boys #birth

All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "I claim them all," said the Savage at last. ↗


— Aldous Huxley


#new #world #cancer

And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor. Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said. I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning. It's too heavy," I said. Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. ↗


— Corrie Ten Boom


#father #knowledge #travel

You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine! ↗


— Jeaniene Frost


#cat #foot #grave #juan #kitten

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗


— Olivier Weber


#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding. ↗


— Lao Tzu


#travel #wisdom #speech

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. ↗


— George Eliot


#neighbors #life

I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto ↗


— Clara E. Laughlin


#life

Another man might have taken vengeance in blood and fire, or made an end of himself. Regan is stronger than that. There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on figting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow. ↗


— Juliet Marillier


#raven-flight #freedom

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way. ↗


— John Mandeville


#travel #wonder #life






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