Snufkin Moominvalley Quotes & Sayings

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage. — Salman Rushdie

we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for — W.S. Merwin

Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways. — Brandon Mull

Link held up a spoon. "Bend this fork with your mind." "It's a spoon." "Trick question." Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. "So you think with your fists? Good to know. — Kami Garcia

Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again. — Neil Patrick Harris

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.' — Dave Brubeck

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story. — Alex Graves

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time. — Bobby Sherman

Good. So, I guess I should have a pet name for you."
"You could call me laird," Ian suggested, even though he wasn't feeling like one right now.
Sam swirled fingers in his chest hair, then tugged lightly on it. "Can I call you laird bear?"
"Hell no."
Ian felt Sam smile against his neck.
"No," he repeated.
"Okay," Sam said agreeably, still smiling.
"Fuck," Ian muttered.
Sam giggled. It was cute.
"Let's go to bed," he said, nudging Sam with his arm. "This couch is too small."
"Okay, laird. Bear."
"Ha. Ha. — Anne Tenino

Anyone can visit the Astral plane by the mechanism of Astral projection. As a citizen of the universe, you
have the absolute right to go anywhere within the Creation for the purpose of personal enlightenment. The
point here is "look, don't touch". In order to successfully visit the Astral plane in an alert state you must have
no desires and total emotional control. Any desires would be immediately fulfilled and so trap you. And,
since you navigate with emotion, you will need to be able to precisely direct it. — W.C. Vetsch

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. — Truman Capote

Tobias asked.
"Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on
the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into
dolphins ... You're suggesting that's weird? — Katherine Applegate

Where human children have years and years in which to grow their hearts and learn to live with them while staying safe from all the troubles a heart hauls with it, a Changeling starts out raw and red and full of longing. Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls r s SCarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs. Some walk around naked, though no one can see it but you and I. — Catherynne M Valente

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead