#ren

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#apocatastasis #pronounciation #re-establishment #renovation #restoration

I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go. "And you'll never leave me?" she pressed. "I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass." Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly. "Oh, aye. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#into-the-dreaming #jane #karen-marie-moning #dreams

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#punishment #young-people #youth #children

You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine." Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?" Y-yes, Mr. D." Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god." Yes, child." A god. You. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #percy-jackson #children

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#children

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. ↗

— Frank Warren

#pith #children

Underneath my imagination there didn't seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body and brain, wired into me like a constant warning. Watch out, stay still, move away, stay silent, fight back, run and hide. Even when I was dreaming, but more so when I was awake, there was the constant fear of being caught off-guard, or by the wrong person at the wrong time. ↗

— Jane Devin

#sadness #self #self-awareness #dreams

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder. ↗

— Mike Yaconelli

#dreams #wonder #dreams

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#into-the-dreaming #karen-marie-moning #dreams

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life