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Mary Wesley

"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."

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Akiroq Brost

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."

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Akiroq Brost

"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."

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Akiroq Brost

"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."

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Akiroq Brost

"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."

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Akiroq Brost

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

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Akiroq Brost

"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

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Akiroq Brost

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

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Akiroq Brost

"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."

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Akiroq Brost

"Dream is the realm most people live their life."

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Mary Wesley
"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"

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Mary Wesley
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."

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Mary Wesley
"Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car."

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Mary Wesley
"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."

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Mary Wesley
"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."

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Mary Wesley
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."

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Mary Wesley
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

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Mary Wesley
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."

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Mary Wesley
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."

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Mary Wesley
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."

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