He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
I always hated…all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can’t hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.
Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.
How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations,” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.
You!’ Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.
A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer…A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.
A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.
If you care about people and you really love them, you should get angry at the things that put them in danger or hurt them.
The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.
You would think,’ Aedan said, ‘that I’d feel good about this-I’ve grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.
Are you planning to kiss me?’ Aedan asked.’No.’ Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.’Then why are you standing so close?’ Aedan’s tone was perfect innocence.
Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.
Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.