Children will not be patient if you pontificate or meander or self-congratulate. Rather, children’s fiction necessitates distillation: at its best, it renders in their purest, most archetypal forms hope, hunger, joy, fear. Think of
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“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
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“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
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“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake”
― The Duchess of Malfi
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake”
― The Duchess of Malfi
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“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
― Mortality
― Mortality
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