“What is real?” asked the Rabbit one day. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside and a stick-out handle?’
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once like being wound up?” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints, and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” ~Ailin's blog.
"Go. Do. Be." ~teva
"Never stop exploring." ~the north face
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"What marries me to you? Is it a piece of paper? Then I am not married to you. Is it Church approval? Then I am not married to you. Is it the fact of a roof, the fact of a bed, the fact of two keys in one lock? Then I am not married to you. Is it the Eye of the Law? Then I am not married to you.
If it is the daily pleasure in your face. If it is the quickening of my spirits at your face, if it is your face I seek when I seek no other, if it is the love of you that is consent, if it is consent to be of the same mind, then let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments..."
~Art & Lies, Jeanette Winterson, from Char Lim fav quotes
"Oh... So I see you like erm... milk..." ~Eugene, demonstrating a possible pickup line to be used at the neighbourhood supermarket.
"Anima Sana In Corpore Sano" ~asics
"And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
By the purification of the motive
In the ground of our beseeching."
~Little Gidding III, T.S. Eliot
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