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“it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.”

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Robin McKinley is an American children's literature author known for her modern interpretations of myths and legends. Her works, rich in imagination and deep emotion, have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

Ifs Has Beens Reason Values Water Economy Elements All Things Gold Opposites Metaphor Locked Ecology Locked Up Mobility Fluidity

Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”

Giving Stories Reading Given Stars Lines Sky Draws Cosmos Imaginary Constellations Imaginary Lines

Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels”

Thinking Would Be Goal Novel Streets Feminist Available Architecture Primaries Landscape Squares Midnight Virginia Woolf Landscape Architecture

Book:Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.”

Knows Heart Reason Form Moral Share Planets Sweet Taste Horror Temptation Love Life Carrie Paradox Jungle Our Planet Terrain

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.”

Love Needs Would Be Born Morning Darkness Fire Sea Broken Moon Blue Wings Wave Edges Weather Rays Crash Balconies

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Long ago I left heroics to the heroes”

Long Left Hero Long Ago

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.”

Sometimes Play Hate South Musical Neighbor Pacific Soundtracks

Author:Louise Brown

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”

Forget Never Forget

Author:Samuel Beckett

“For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.”

Use Purpose Moral Technology Century Capacity Sophisticated

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“So much universe, and so little time.”

Littles Universe Little Time

Author:Terry Pratchett

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