“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” PeopleThinkingWorldLoveNeedsShouldYearsKindMadeDreamAgeKindnessWiseWonderfulReturnRight NowMade ItBe KindBeing Wise Author:Neil Gaiman
“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsTwoDoneTodayTurnsChanceKnownStepsForeverHeardReturnBattleThousandShotsDignitySoldierCommandFirst StepsThousand YearsStatuesTurning Points Author:Leon Uris
“So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.” YearsMindPainHouseLeftReturnYears AgoLettersForgottenStranger Author:Philip Larkin
“The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss” MenYearsMindYoungLeftBehindsCreativityLandReturnSeedsYoung ManNativeMisfortunesLeft BehindBrianMiragesNative Land Author:Brian Aldiss
“Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.” YearsStillsTwoReturnBirthTaxesDaughterAdultsSevenPhonesDeedsThank GodLicenseSeven YearsCertificatesPaperworkBirth CertificateTax Returns Author:Kelly Corrigan
“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.” IfsWayYearsHappensLostImagineReturnPleaseYears AgoBoundsMy WayPhantom TollboothLost Years Book:The phantom tollbooth Source: The phantom tollbooth
“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.” WorldYearsBookFoundParentWaterBornSimpleFourSweetReturnGratitudeOrdinaryHotCleanExtraordinaryMeatShirtsMealsApplesCampsVegetablesFour YearsRefugeOrangeJuiceLiberatedForksFugitivePotencyHot WaterMattressesOrdinarinessOrdinary World Author:Anne Michaels
“How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You can’t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I know the pain you hide. I know the pain I caused. If I stay here, I will go mad from the screams. If I return to the Vanishing Isle, I’ll languish there alone and in time I will probably learn to hate you all over again. I don’t want to hate you anymore, Acheron. You are a god who can control human fate. Is it not possible that there was a reason why we were joined together? Surely the Fates meant for us to be brothers. (Styxx)” IfsKnowsWantYearsHumansReasonPainTogetherLastsHateThreeMemoriesFateBrotherReturnMadReason WhyScreamThree YearsHate YouVanishingIsleIf I StayLanguish Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.” IfsWorldYearsLastsLyingGrowsDifferencesGoneForeverFlowerReturnSpringPaidAncientFallenLast YearReplacedRenewalVinesPetalsSpring Flowers Author:Daniel Abraham