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David Almond Quotes: We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
         

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.


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I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.



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We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.



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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.





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