And he is a wonderful speaker – I met him briefly on his Ocean at the End of the Lane tour. I pretty much prattled on like an idiot, but it was worth the embarrassment 😛
Also, if you ever get a chance to see him around Halloween, he busts out his story “Click Clack the Rattle Bag.” It’s so spooky when he reads it aloud!!
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” –Fellowship of the Ring/Tolkien.
“Man is a suppressive being. Unless he learns when to stop, he will dive foolishly off the cliff, reaching for the star he has been chasing; the promise … the dream. Then as he tumbles down the mountain, he mercilessly crushes himself and those who believed in his attempt on the rocks of two cruel facts… that he is only human and that star was never in his reach.”
“I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act, with your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little child, with eyes swimming in tears and the little chin dimpled with fear, like a piece of water struck by a sudden cold wind. Have the picture taken. If that little child should die, I cannot think of a sweeter way to spend an autumn afternoon than to go out to the cemetery, when the maples are clad in tender gold, and little scarlet runners are coming, like poems of regret, from the sad heart of the earth—and sit down upon the grave and look at that photograph, and think of the flesh now dust that you beat. I tell you it is wrong; it is no way to raise children! Make your home happy. Be honest with them. Divide fairly with them in everything.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open grey eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised.” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and “He was tiny in death.” – Harry Potter and tbe Deathly Hallows
“Even if teen-age children aren’t making a sound, it’s quieter when they’re gone. They put a boiling in the air around them.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent.
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
I love this one so much I put it on the wall :).
I love everything about this
Thank you :). Those are my TBR shelves. Ignore the colour of the carpet though. We painted but haven’t changed the carpet yet LOL.
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” – Neil Gaiman, Sandman #6
Loveeee Neil Gaiman!
Me too! I just went to his talk in Hartford last week. So inspirational
That’s awesome!! I would give anything to hear him speak. He’s one of my favourite authors, and I haven’t even read all his books yet :).
When get over being a chicken, this quote is going to be my tattoo! 🙂
And he is a wonderful speaker – I met him briefly on his Ocean at the End of the Lane tour. I pretty much prattled on like an idiot, but it was worth the embarrassment 😛
Also, if you ever get a chance to see him around Halloween, he busts out his story “Click Clack the Rattle Bag.” It’s so spooky when he reads it aloud!!
I love listening to him read aloud. His voice is mesmerizing.
@Jodi I am going to have the last line tattooed on me!
@Jenn: we’re gonna be twins! (as soon as I get up the nerve, LOL)
@Jodi He read “Click Clack” when we saw him speak in So Cal. in March <3.
@Kris: yes! I love it!
He’s one of my favorite people in the universe!! I don’t actually know him, but still ???
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” –Fellowship of the Ring/Tolkien.
Love it!
“Man is a suppressive being. Unless he learns when to stop, he will dive foolishly off the cliff, reaching for the star he has been chasing; the promise … the dream. Then as he tumbles down the mountain, he mercilessly crushes himself and those who believed in his attempt on the rocks of two cruel facts… that he is only human and that star was never in his reach.”
“I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are in the act, with your face red with vulgar anger, and the face of the little child, with eyes swimming in tears and the little chin dimpled with fear, like a piece of water struck by a sudden cold wind. Have the picture taken. If that little child should die, I cannot think of a sweeter way to spend an autumn afternoon than to go out to the cemetery, when the maples are clad in tender gold, and little scarlet runners are coming, like poems of regret, from the sad heart of the earth—and sit down upon the grave and look at that photograph, and think of the flesh now dust that you beat. I tell you it is wrong; it is no way to raise children! Make your home happy. Be honest with them. Divide fairly with them in everything.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge”
A Song of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin
“Man will forever spill the blood of a thousand to grow one prefect rose.”
-Sister’s Lament (ACN Series book 2)
Shadow’s “I believe speech” from American Gods.
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken” Oscar Wilde. It’s actually a quote I use a lot and simply puts things it perspective.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company”. – Mark Twain
“Everybody is ignorant, except on different subjects” – Will Rogers
“You are ever so much more than you realize” Zan in a note to Luna
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
by: Kelly Barnhill
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
*I Am the Messenger
by: Markus Zusak
“For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open grey eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised.” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and “He was tiny in death.” – Harry Potter and tbe Deathly Hallows
“Even if teen-age children aren’t making a sound, it’s quieter when they’re gone. They put a boiling in the air around them.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent.
Also: “If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” A Gentleman from Moscow, Amor Towles
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
My favorite book of all time.