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“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”

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A. A. Milne was a British author renowned for his children's literature, particularly for creating the endearing characters Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin. Born on January 18, 1882, and deceased on January 31, 1956, Milne's contributions have left a lasting imprint on the world of children's literature. more

“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”

Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.”

Ifs Mind Said Girl Imagine Dying Example Becoming Things Change Astronaut

Book:The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics

“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”

Children School Stupid Honesty

Author:Mark Haddon

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”

Ifs Motivation Sports Kissing Losing Teeth Ties Grandmother Softball Kissing You Inspirational Softball Softball Player

Author:George Brett

“The world is a lie...not you and me.”

World Lying

Author:Libba Bray

“Only the mistakes were mine.”

Mistake Mines

Author:Malcolm X

“I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.”

Has Beens Feelings Night Middle Nightmare Middle Of The Night Paws Eyelids

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”

Spiritual Evil Hunger Thirst Hunger And Thirst

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

Children Parent Effort Parenting Rewards My Children Copies Sweetest Love Respect

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

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