kaleidoscope of words
I see the world through it like a spyglass. It is my gateway to places I dream about: those which I have never set foot upon, but also those on which I have.
“Each afternoon she would slip shyly through the shop door. The smell of paper, glue, ink and dust assaulted her nostrils. She inhaled greedily. To her it was the smell of comfort, the smell of adventure, the smell of different worlds, better worlds. Her furrowed brow relaxed as she shrugged off her school bag, handed in yesterday’s borrowed book and scanned the shelves for something new. So many books. So many friends.”
— Miriam Adeney, Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women, page 51
“Good night—you Princes of Maine, you Kings of New England!”
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
“We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them.”
— George MacDonald, The Princess, The Goblin & Curdie, page 118, paperback
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.”
— Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, chapter 1
“I want to learn from others, but I also like to be the one who’s in the know, the one who has it all together in the important areas of life. Maybe that’s what I should be most afraid of—not being honest enough with my imperfections to hear from others, not being humble enough to receive from them.”
— Sacred Encounters by Tamara Park, pages 19 & 20
A final sentence
“When they tried to pull his skeleton away from the one he held in his arms it crumbled into dust.”
— Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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“Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.”
— A. W. Tozer, in his preface to The Pursuit of God
