#ren

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#different

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#different

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths. ↗

— Larry Itejere

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

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#self-assurance #strength

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

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#recycled-by-bil-keane #recycled-by-eleanor-roosevelt #children