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“All the love in the world doesn't match a little scrap of understanding.”

Love Understanding Compassion

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“These decisions, they are the magic we call Life.”

Life Lessons Choices Decisions

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“A toy cannot save a life, but it can save a soul.”

Life Lessons Childhood Toys

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“The most terrible things can happen to a man, but he’ll never lose himself if he remembers he was once a child.”

Childhood Survival Perseverance Memory

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“Once upon a time, all of us, no matter what we've grown up to do or who we've grown up to be, were little boys and girls, happy with nothing more than bouncing a ball against a wall”

Children Childhood Adults Adulthood

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“Because this is how the world ends: not in the falling incendiaries of an aerial attack, not in a storm of toy soldiers laying waste to the gods who brought them into being, but in the banal letters of a bank. Where once was magic: now only economics.”

Loss Ending Anticlimax

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“Running away was not like it was in stories. People did not try and stop you. They did not give chase. The thing people didn't understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from. Most of the time it wasn't mothers or fathers or monsters or villains; most of the time you were running away from that little voice inside your head, the one telling you to stay where you are, that everything will turn out all right.”

Adventure Running Away Complacency Fugitive Runaway

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers

“When somebody says I need, it means that the thing they will tell you is a terror, and must not really be heard at all.”

Fairy Tales Gingerbread Folk Tales Belarus Robert Dinsdale

Book:Gingerbread

Source: Gingerbread

“Mightn't it be, Cathy, that, until you've seen the dark, you don't really know the light?”

Book:The Toymakers

Source: The Toymakers