"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S. Lewis
"Perhaps, after all, love did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps…perhaps… love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath." - from Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery
"Perhaps, after all, love did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps…perhaps… love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath." - from Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick." ~Robert A. Heinlein
"She [Elizabeth Benne...t] had a playful...disposition which delighted in anything ridiculous." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” - Beatrix Potter
"Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart..." - 1st John 3:20
"It is impossible to govern a nation without God and the Bible." - George Washington
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?” - Jane Austen
"So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible." ~ Lewis Carroll
"...the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen
"It was when I was happiest that I longed the most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." ~C.S. Lewis
"Relationships are a strange and wonderful and painful and stretching and delightful experience. But we love because it is the only true adventure." - Leigh Hinkel
Buttercup: "We'll never make it through alive!"
Wesley: "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has!”
~The Princess Bride
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for. ~John A. Shedd
