Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.

What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you, " the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen