"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
-- Lucy Maude Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
A much beloved quotation-- because there is no-one who hasn't experienced what Anne has experienced in those days with mistakes in! --Donna Farley
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
"It was a dark and stormy night."
I know-- you think this is Bulwer-Lytton-- and it is.
But it's also Madeleine' L'Engle's opening line for her Newbery-winning book A Wrinkle in Time
I remember being sucked into this scene, with a vividly-realized storm around the Murry house and Meg coming down to the kitchen for cocoa. Meeting the fascinating characters....L'Engle deliberately took a famous cliche to open her book, and got away with it. -- Donna Farley
I know-- you think this is Bulwer-Lytton-- and it is.
But it's also Madeleine' L'Engle's opening line for her Newbery-winning book A Wrinkle in Time
I remember being sucked into this scene, with a vividly-realized storm around the Murry house and Meg coming down to the kitchen for cocoa. Meeting the fascinating characters....L'Engle deliberately took a famous cliche to open her book, and got away with it. -- Donna Farley
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
What a fun blog! Here's one of my favorites:
“It’s VERY provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, “to be called an egg – VERY!”
from Lewis Carroll's THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Chapter VI: Humpty Dumpty
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Another quote that I love, and which I carry around in my teacher plan book and post in my office at home is from Harry Potter 7 Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling:
Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening in your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it's not real?" Liana Mahoney
Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening in your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it's not real?" Liana Mahoney
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