May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want… and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
I’m not brave,’ Ava replied huskily. ‘If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.’ ‘But isn’t that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?
Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That’s why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining…
Ava’s father believed that myths and fairy tales – like dreams – opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.
The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.
Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.
Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING
If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe’s lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again