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Quote by Frederick Buechner

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

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Frederick Buechner, born on July 11, 1926, is a renowned American writer. His works span across various genres including novels, essays, and plays, known for their profound religious and philosophical reflections. more

“The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.”

Thinking Behinds Ears Rose Hey Lap Eyelashes Thinking Of You Mimi Just Thinking Of You

Author:Melissa de la Cruz

“He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.”

Wells Said House White Morning Happened Queens Tone Thursday Hippopotamus

Book:Alice Through the Looking Glass

Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass

“Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!”

Mind Heart Littles Long Made Lasts Gone Cry Tears Rivers Silly Streams Last Time Long Life Brooks Drifting Cloudy

Author:James Joyce

“I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.”

Ifs Facts Care Rooms Proud Lunch

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”

Mean Art Country Facts Use Form Beauty Progress Expression Authority Preventing Degrade Free Expression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“I am a war president.”

War President

Author:George W. Bush

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