“So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.” YearsBookStoriesPagesSpringImpressionPleasantThank GodChaptersCharmingVioletInscriptionsMayflowerBook Of LifeVignettes Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.” WritingYearsLittlesRememberSportsWaitingMorningSunGrowing UpGrowingDadPagesSpringBaseballMy DadNewspapersCraftsPostsArticlesAfternoonBackyardsColoradoDenverPlaying Baseball Author:Pat Forde
“I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.” LooksSaidWantedFacesGrowingChangedSeriousArmsPagesSpringEdgesShouldersYellowResemblanceDaffodil Book:Protector of the Small Quartet Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.” WorldChildrenWarMotherNumbersFictionCenturyReaderNeededSixPagesSpringLaborRateDefeatConversionTricksNovelistsWar Of The WorldsCarrieVacationWorld War IStairsParagraphSyllablesTime PassesSagaNarratorsLabor DayRefreshmentsEscalators Book:Generosity: An Enhancement Source: Generosity: An Enhancement