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“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

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Sharon Creech is an American author renowned for her children's literature. Born on July 29, 1945, she is known for her profound character development and engaging storytelling. more

“Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.”

People Men Different Views Opinion Position Ideals Noble Tendencies Cherish Standing Out Lofty Prevailing Ambiguous Fear Nothing

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it”

Facts Might Together Solve Being Together Getting Dressed

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

Fall Lost Wish Parent Dying Bones Invisible Prudence Mike

Author:Sharon Creech

“I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow”

Looks Bows Arrows Haste

Book:A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)

“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.”

Way Trying Stories Feelings Happenings Work Out Best Way

Author:Garth Nix

“Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.”

Ifs Enough Light Would Be Half Darkness Impossible Conditions Planets Extremes Heat Native Dependent Deprivation Rotation

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”

Inspirational Reality Inspiration Literature Best Literature

Author:Romain Gary

“...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.”

Ends Romance Left Delusion Mutual Pact

Book:Notes on a Scandal

Source: Notes on a Scandal

“The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.”

Made Said Dream Lasts Spirit Taken Wonderful Heavy

Book:Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

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