Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS, the
IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
-Shel Silverstein
“…[I]f one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…”
-Henry David Thoreau
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
-Mark Twain
"...[T]here are no random acts...we are all connected...you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
-Mitch Albom
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
-Joyce Carol Oates
“It is important,” the man in the grey suit interrupts. “Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift…”
-From The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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