The ones who wanted to be Good got to stand in one corner of the room, the ones who wanted to be Evil in the other. The contentedness of the cat brought a smile to my face.
In the library, Tiny is like a secret princess. ~ The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan ~ All Rivers Flow to the Sea by Alison McGhee It holds all the emptiness and all the fullness of the years it has known, the footprints of all the people who have ever walked its rooms gather themselves. But when a house is empty, then it's the house's turn. That's the trouble with loving a wild thing. Give me a glass slipper and I'd twist my ankle and shatter the shoe. "Courage is fear holding out for just a few minutes longer." ~ The Pursuit of Happiness by Tara Altebrando ~ Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan ~ The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Stolen by Celia Thomsonīut I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. She kicked her heels like a little girl and waited for something to happen. I turned the light off and listened in the silence for the voices of people I had loved within these walls. I counted in fours because if I stopped, the tears in my eyes would spill over.Īnd so I waited in the library and touched the spines of the books I should have read long ago to make myself smart, to keep up with him. "Books are already filled with them," I said, "And posters and television shows." (Sam) "You could fill a book with the things you haven't seen." (Farouk) It'll just never be what it really is, hands moving on a clock. Time passes too fast when you just want it to stop, and time passes too slow when all you wish for is a lifetime in a minute. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.īut a few other visions were there as well.Īnd here are the things I know: Time will never be what my watch says. They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.ĭon't make me happy. He must have loved her so incredibly hard.
Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. Therein lay the problem.Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. ~ Sins of the Father by Christopher Golden The rule for growing up seemed to be that no choice, no decision worth making was without some cost.Īnd even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun. It seemed like every month that went by, every day older, life became more complicated. Especially since I hadn't even been able to save myself.Ī girl looking for emotion could starve in L.A. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story. So many versions of just one memory, an yet none of them were right or wrong.
~ The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just the instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. ~ Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The Duchess: Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.Īlice: I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.Īlice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over. ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollĮverything has got a moral, if only you can find it. When you're done here, you can also take a look at the F u n n i e s t Passages from children's literature or the Most Poetic Passages from children's literature.Īs Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.īut it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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