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"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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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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"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."
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"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."
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"She felt that "truthful and "honest were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn't eaten Roselyn's Chinese leftovers, but that wasn't honest because it omitted that Eliot did and that Shane did not object."
Ethics
"He wouldn't be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries."
Faith
"Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question."
Humor
"If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself."
Mind
"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
Creativity
"There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?"
Spiritual
"Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words."
Religion
"Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be."
Belief
"Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time."
Society
"Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein."
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