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“There is a sad satisfaction in knowing that when standing up for the truth you also stand alone and against everyone else.”

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“Like most children, Nicholas had loved myths and fairy tales, but unlike most children he'd never seen himself in the plucky heroes and heroines who spat jewels from blessed mouths or spun wheat into gold or stumbled across magic beans, magic lamps, magic geese. His place was outside the stories, where someone, he imagined, was writing all the spells that made the magic possible. So he'd based many of his early, experimental books on the tales he enjoyed: an enchantment for a harp that made all who heard it weep; a spell to steal a person's voice and hide it in a seashell.”

“CALVIN'S DAD: What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except... CALVIN, INTERRUPTING HIM: "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie"! CALVIN'S DAD, IN ANGUISH: NO! No Hamster Huey tonight! We've read that book a million times! CALVIN: I want Hamster Huey! CALVIN'S DAD, Nearly Pleading: Look, you KNOW how the story goes. You've memorized the whole thing! It's the same story every day! CALVIN, Screaming: I want Hamster Huey! CALVIN, LYING IN BED WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT: Wow, the story was different THAT time! HOBBES, LYING IN BED NEXT TO CALVIN, ALSO WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT: Do you think the townsfolk will ever find Hamster Huey's head?”

“People... ask questions like "What have you got that is suitable for a child with the reading age of eight?" and I would say, The book for a child with the reading age of twelve," because it always seemed to me that parents who have to ask librarians for information never really understand how kids how kids who like reading actually read. Who would want to read a book that is suitable for you? (From Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins)”

“This is the same for our role as the adult generation in society. It is our role not to shape the future, but to not fuck things up so badly that our kids will be too busy correcting the past to focus on the future. It is our job to be confused and dismayed by the future generation, and trust that if we would just stop trying to control them, and instead support them, they will eventually find their way.”

“Τα παιδιά σας δεν είναι παιδιά σας. Είναι οι γιοι και οι κόρες της λαχτάρας της Ζωής για τη ζωή. Έρχονται στη ζωή με τη βοήθειά σας, αλλά όχι από σας, Και μόλο που είναι μαζί σας, δεν ανήκουν σε σας. Μπορείτε να τους δώσετε την αγάπη σας, όχι όμως και τις ιδέες σας, Γιατί αυτά έχουν τις δικές τους ιδέες. Μπορείτε να στεγάσετε το σώμα τους, όχι όμως και τη ψυχή τους, Γιατί η ψυχή τους κατοικεί στο σπίτι του αύριο, που εσείς δεν μπορείτε να επισκεφτείτε, ούτε στα όνειρά σας.”