March 2012
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“The Wood between the Worlds,” said Polly dreamily. “It sounds rather nice.”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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“Low down and near the horizon hung a great, red sun, far bigger than our sun....”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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“There’s not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds...”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also...”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is...”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
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“Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart’s...”
– The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
February 2012
332 posts
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
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“From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that...”
– “Evening Hawk” by Robert Penn Warren
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“The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“When I meet you, in that moment, I’m no longer a part of your future. I...”
– Sarah Kay
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“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop...”
– Sarah Kay
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“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand...”
– Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
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“I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of...”
– Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy by James M. Barrie
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“Never is an awfully long time.”
– Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
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“And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to...”
– This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I do not need to be told the circumstances to know this - that if two people...”
– JM Barrie; The Little Minister
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“Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things...”
– John Green
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“But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy...”
– Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside asylums only hide it a...”
– Stephen King
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Robert Frost’s theory on how a poem should be includes the fact that at the beginning of the poem there should be confusion, delusion, or uncertainty.
However, the poem should end with
“a momentary stay against confusion.”
Meaning, that the confusion, delusion, or uncertainty will return, but by divulging ourselves in a moment of literature or poetry, we have cleared the fog...
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“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People...”
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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“Well, when everybody’s going this way, it’s time to turn around and...”
– Breece D’J Pancake
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“When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“I’m not straight, and I’m not gay. I’m not bisexual. I want...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“You can’t escape the world, and you’re not responsible for how you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway
I would just like to say that I really like this quotation because I get really attached to books I truly enjoy, and this kind of describes my feelings after a great book.
-Allison
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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So. This has nothing to do with literature.
But!
Allison and I are going to a The Maine concert in Raleigh, NC on May 4th! I am so excited! If any of you are The Maine fans. Please let us know! We would love to fan girl with you. :-)
-Sarah
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“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
– Stephen Sondheim
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“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to...”
– Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
– Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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“This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 