December 2009
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“I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities. trans. William Weaver. (via uponthestrand)
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“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years,...”
– ~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Dec 27th
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Welcome to Holland.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The...
Dec 26th
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C.S Lewis, 'The Last Battle', last page.
’You do not yet look as happy as I mean you to be.’ Lucy said, ‘We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.’ ‘No fear of that,’ said Aslan. ‘Have you not guessed?’ Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them. ‘There was a real railway accident,’ said Aslan softly. ‘Your father and mother and all of you are – as you used to call...
Dec 22nd
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“Somewhere, someone knows the words to the songs you sing.”
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked. “You must want to fly...”
– ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Dec 21st
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as...”
– ~ Annie Dillard
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“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
– E.M. Forster (via quote-book)
Dec 16th
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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be...”
– T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding (via proustianmemory) (via quote-book)
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“And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I...”
– ~ Robert Frost (via proustianmemory) (via quote-book)
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Dec 14th
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“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
Dec 14th
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“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to...”
– ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dec 13th
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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all...”
– ~ Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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Dec 10th
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