The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Quotes

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, al...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course,...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making