There is no escape if love is not there

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I can.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.