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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."
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"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."
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"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."
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"While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
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"When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'"
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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."
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"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"
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"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
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"Live today facing forward-with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment."
Mindfulness
"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."
Comfort
"Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls."
Courage
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
Imagination
"Walk with me for a while, my friend-you in my shoes, I in yours-and then let us talk."
Companionship
"Love is the ultimate no-calorie sweetener."
Love
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
Experience
"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
Advice
"It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression."
Judgment
"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
Justice
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