tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36449818304506429192023-11-16T03:02:26.650-08:00The Daily KidLit Quote...of ships & shoes & sealing wax, of cabbages and kings...Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-74261082230803700682010-02-10T01:51:00.000-08:002010-02-13T15:41:52.450-08:00So long, and thanks for all the Quotes!It's been a fun experiment, and I would like to thank all the folks who have contributed favorite KidLit quotes. But I haven't acquired enough quotes to keep things rolling here, and don't have time to dig for more myself on a regular basis.<br />
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Besides, it has taken me till now to discover I've been re-inventing the wheel. So if you are hooked on a daily quote from KidLit, head on over to: <br />
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<a href="http://childrensbookquotes.wordpress.com/">Children's Book Quote of the Day</a><br />
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and enjoy! I will leave the blog online here for a while so people can find that link. <br />
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As for me, I am into high gear with promoting my children's picture book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ravens-Farne-Tale-Saint-Cuthbert/dp/0982277059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264635626&sr=1-1"><i style="color: #990000;"><b>The Ravens of Farne: A Tale of Saint Cuthbert</b></i></a> due out this month.<br />
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And I am also very busy with the editing process of my YA historical novel,<b style="color: #38761d;"> <i>Bearing the Saint. </i></b>That one is coming out in July, but meanwhile you can read about All Things Saint Cuthbert at my other blog, <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://stcuthbert.blogspot.com/">HALIWERFOLC</a>. </span></b></span>Hope to see you there!Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-35774444258162993852010-02-09T07:19:00.000-08:002010-02-09T07:19:00.097-08:00<div class="contentbox"> <div class="shortbottompad"><span style="font-size: large;">"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." </span></div><div class="cite"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>— Walt Disney </b></span></div></div>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-87140206448076308442010-02-08T07:17:00.000-08:002010-02-08T07:17:00.353-08:00<div class="contentbox"> <div class="shortbottompad"><span style="font-size: large;">"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." </span></div><div class="cite"><span style="font-size: large;">—<b> Roald Dahl, <i style="color: #990000;">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i></b></span> </div></div>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-81255745937924812012010-02-05T08:00:00.000-08:002010-02-05T08:00:07.954-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">But if you really looked, Rhan thought. If you looked beyond the powers and the villains and the plots to take over the universe. There was just a guy. Somebody who was alone, who'd been cut off from other people by disaster or birth. There was just a guy who wanted so bad to make things right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-- <b>Diana Wieler, <i style="color: #990000;">Ran Van the Defender</i></b></span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-9176066786273788982010-02-04T01:36:00.000-08:002010-02-04T01:36:00.385-08:00"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"<br />
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Dumbledore, in <i style="color: purple;"><b>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows </b></i>by <b>JK Rowlling</b>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-7555348318432931512010-02-03T07:01:00.000-08:002010-02-03T07:01:00.371-08:00<div class="G0"><div class="J-J5-Ji"><div act="undefined" class="J-K-I J-J5-Ji J-K-I-Js-KK GZ L3" id="" tabindex="0"><div class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-Kv-H"><div class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-J6-H"><div class="J-K-I-KC"><div class="J-K-I-K9-KP"><h1 class="ha"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hP" id=":gg"> an Anti-Valen<wbr></wbr>tine quote: </span></span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gE iv gt"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ"><tbody>
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I totally agree!-- <a href="http://www.sherriepetersen.com/"> Sherrie Petersen</a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-84697569573225959832010-02-01T11:58:00.000-08:002010-02-01T13:38:11.596-08:00<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This submission was GREAT, but longish-- almost the whole story-- but I trimmed it to this wonderful concluding verse--Donna Farley)</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Here's a quote from a <b>Debi Glior</b>i picture book, she writes and illustrates and is based in Edinburgh - my hero!</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"No Matter What" </span></i></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">by Debi Gliori</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">'Small, look at the stars - how they shine and glow, but some of those stars died a long time ago.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">still they shine in the evening skies</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">love, like starlight, never dies.'</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Makes me well up, every - single - time. :-)</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Katherine Sanders</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-71145071618821530512010-01-29T02:50:00.000-08:002010-01-29T02:50:00.325-08:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp expression at both of them, "there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying."</span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "What's that?" said Susan.</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "We might all try minding our own business," said he.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">-- C.S. Lewis, <i><b>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</b></i></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think the Professor's advice can be applied to so many situations these days! </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was quite unhappy when the movie changed this line into Hollywood tripe about behaving like a family. In fact, the kids -were- behaving like a family-- fighting and wrangling together!-- D. Farley</span><br />
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-Ramona Quimby in <i><b>Ramona's World</b></i> by <b>Beverly Cleary</b><br />
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I've always loved how literal kids can be (and Ramona is always an excellent example of that trait). She is responding to a license plate she sees which is naturally a misspelling of "librarian" because license plates have very limited characters. I am not a perfect speller myself, but I always appreciate good spelling. We all have spell check.<br />
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Thanks! Fun blog!<br />
Carin Siegfried<br />
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<a href="http://carolinebookbinder.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://carolinebookbinder.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/</a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-7840357338958539792010-01-27T11:30:00.000-08:002010-01-27T11:30:01.916-08:00<div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Hi Donna,</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">I read about your blog on Verla's Blueboards. Glad to "meet" you there!</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">I just read<span style="color: #990000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> "Here Lies the Librarian,"</span> by Richard Peck. Peck is amazing at developing strong voice, and this one rings true to the characters and setting:</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">"Any outrage as big as hiring an librarian was bound to bring everybody out of the woodwork."<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Love this book! --</span><a href="http://www.lianamahoney.com/" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Liana Mahoney</span></a><br />
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</span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-53978484326268344842010-01-26T09:35:00.000-08:002010-01-26T09:38:31.765-08:00<div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" >"Believe me, my young friend, there is <em>nothing</em> - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."</span></div><div> </div><div><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" ><i>The Wind in the Willows</i> - Kenneth Grahame</span></b></div><div> <br /></div><div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" > <div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" >I bought a nice edition hardcover 2nd hand last summer to replace my paperback copy which was falling to pieces, having lived in my bookcase continously, when not being actively read, since I bought it new before I left highschool in 1977. In that context, the dedication in the hardcover is its own ultra short (sad) story:</span></div></span></div><div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" >"Dear Sarah: This is a 'special' story - one to keep. Happy Birthday on your 11th, Jan 15th, '96. Much Love Auntie Sheila & Uncle Jim"</span></div><div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;" >--- Alain Hargreaves<br /></span></div>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-42366559303991447582010-01-25T10:14:00.000-08:002010-01-25T10:14:00.565-08:00<div style="float: left; width: 83%; margin-right: 2%;"> <div class="quoteText"> <span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >"Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life." <span style="font-weight: bold;">--Katherine Patterson<br /><br /><br /></span>Found this great quote by Newbery winner<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Katherine Patterson </span>on a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1949.Katherine_Paterson">GoodReads quote page</a><br /><br />-- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donna Farley, </span>KidLitQuote Blog<br /><br /></span></div><br /></div> <div style="float: right; width: 15%;"> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/new?remember=true"><br /></a> </div>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-493570884875786492010-01-22T10:42:00.000-08:002010-01-22T10:42:00.880-08:00"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"<br /><br />-- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucy Maude Montgomery</span>'s <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Anne of Green Gables</span><br /><br /><br />A much beloved quotation-- because there is no-one who hasn't experienced what Anne has experienced in those days with mistakes in! <span style="font-weight: bold;"> --Donna Farley</span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11884647995104136193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-74968618007171197762010-01-21T10:38:00.000-08:002010-01-21T10:47:24.049-08:00<span style="font-size: 180%;">"It was a dark and stormy night."</span><br />
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I know-- you think this is <a href="http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Bulwer-Lytton</a>-- and it is.<br />
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But it's also <span style="font-weight: bold;">Madeleine' L'Engle's </span>opening line for her <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Newbery</span></a>-winning book <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">A Wrinkle in Time</span></span><br />
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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. <a href="http://matdonna.shawwebspace.cas/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-- Donna Farley</span></a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-22825531821853796092010-01-20T09:23:00.000-08:002010-01-20T09:23:00.123-08:00<div style="font-family: georgia;">What a fun blog! Here's one of my favorites:<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">“It’s VERY provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, “to be called an egg – VERY!” </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 9px;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">from</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Lewis Carroll's</span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS,</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>Chapter VI: Humpty Dumpty</span></b></span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.deborahfreedman.net/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-- Deborah Freedman</span></a></span></b></span></span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-27993100495661272612010-01-19T09:55:00.000-08:002010-01-19T09:57:51.539-08:00<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Another quote that I love, and which I carry around in my teacher plan book and post in my office at home is from</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >Harry Potter 7 Deathly Hallows </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">by </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >JK Rowling</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">:<br /><br />Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening in your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it's not real?"</span> <a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.lianamahoney.com/">Liana Mahoney</a><br /></span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-53244695751428890402010-01-18T12:50:00.000-08:002010-01-18T12:50:00.074-08:00"Oh, doak! Grimhounds! Bad! Eyes of fire and teeth of razor blades!"<br />"What should I do about them?"<br />"Not be here?"<br /><br />--<span style="font-weight: bold;">Terry Pratchett<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Wee Free Men</span></span><br /><br /><br />Possibly words to live by. :-)-- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Colleen Cahill</span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-33055127515419961932010-01-16T16:22:00.000-08:002010-01-16T16:22:00.270-08:00Call for Love-Themed KidLit Quotes!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw86IqVLFQnomsuKzba3r9u_lBZ2N533O8HVJlwf954pQwWoR2RG7K3UAKARKZG2HCaRSO8Ly-Wp8szLoETK6F6-r1wcyTHtQOqUYjsnDQU2XbEhe7Du8ewtWX3v5OsbIPdLuuGGUDebhs/s1600-h/writing_valentines.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427174659254774130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw86IqVLFQnomsuKzba3r9u_lBZ2N533O8HVJlwf954pQwWoR2RG7K3UAKARKZG2HCaRSO8Ly-Wp8szLoETK6F6-r1wcyTHtQOqUYjsnDQU2XbEhe7Du8ewtWX3v5OsbIPdLuuGGUDebhs/s320/writing_valentines.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 238px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">We interrupt this blog....</span><br />
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....well, not really interrupt. A new quote goes up here every week day, but I'm setting this to post on Saturday, as we look ahead to next month!<br />
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I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the launch of the blog with quotes or with comments. The enthusiasm is very encouraging. So, I've decided to try a THEME for the month of February....and if you'll forgive me for giving in to cliche, the theme will be<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">LOVE in KIDLIT. </span><br />
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From Robert Munsch's <span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">LOVE YOU FOREVER</span> to the <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">TWILIGHT SAGA </span></span>and everything in between.....KidLit is bound to produce many memorable quotes! So send your favorites. I will post as many as possible on the theme next month.<br />
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Meanwhile--- We have quotes scheduled, but need lots more! So please send <span style="font-weight: bold;">as many as you wish </span>-- in one e-mail or in separate e-mails-- to <span style="font-weight: bold;">kidlitquote {at} gmail dot com</span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-70297609384225576562010-01-15T10:34:00.000-08:002010-01-15T10:34:00.323-08:00"Suppose we <span style="font-style: italic;">have </span>only dreamed or made up all those things- trees and grass and sun and moon and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in this case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say.<br />"<br />-Puddleglum, from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Silver Chair</span>, by <span style="font-weight: bold;">CS Lewis.</span><br /><br />Submitted by <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://characterdviven.blogspot.com/">V.Finnigan</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59950796027&ref=nf" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://characterdviven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-23583014593809537112010-01-14T09:21:00.000-08:002010-01-14T09:21:00.486-08:00Hi Donna! Here's my quote:<br /><br />"He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real."<br /><br />--from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Haroun and the Sea of Stories</span> by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Salman Rushdie. </span><br /><br />An unwitting foreshadowing, while still on Earth, of the crazy things that would soon happen to Haroun.<br /><br />-- submitted by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alex Riggle</span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-36988282702134700162010-01-13T09:19:00.000-08:002010-01-13T09:19:00.162-08:00"Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people‹those who find<br />comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and<br />those who find comfort in food."<br /><br />From <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Little White Horse" </span>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elizabeth Goudge</span><br /><br /><br />I love this quote because it's so unexpectedly profound.<a href="http://katherinehyde.com"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">-- Katherine Hyde</span></a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-76335136081262762412010-01-12T09:35:00.000-08:002010-01-12T09:35:00.210-08:00<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >I love this blog! I've been collecting quotations from books for many years, so I'll send them to you bit by bit. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" ></span><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >From AA Milne, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Winnie the Pooh</span>, end of last chapter:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >" 'When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet...'what's the first thing you say to yourself?'</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" > 'What's for breakfast?' said Pooh. 'What do <em>you </em>say, Piglet?'</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" > 'I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting <em>today </em>?' said Piglet.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" > Pooh nodded thoughtfully. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" > 'It's the same thing,' he said."<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >Thoughts about the quotation:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >Piglet's phrasing "I wonder what's going to happen exciting <em>today?" </em>makes this thought already exciting and anticipatory of Good Things. This stands in complete contrast to the Monday morning feeling of most people--'back to the grind'. It's all about letting ourselves be open to the blessings of the Lord, and allowing Him to allow us to be blessings for other people too. <em>That's </em>the excitement--the synergy that is possible!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);font-family:Comic Sans MS;" >--submitted by Laurie Rodger<br /></span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-62730185626537347812010-01-11T09:28:00.000-08:002010-01-11T09:28:00.289-08:00"I am not bad, I 'm just drawn that way."<br />~by character Peter Weir from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Runnerland</span> by John Burns<br /><br /><br />What I like about this line is that it shows the struggle to find identity.-- <a href="http://anacceptabletime.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramona Wildeman</span></a>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3644981830450642919.post-59141528739932283822010-01-08T08:23:00.000-08:002010-01-09T12:53:15.268-08:00"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."<br /><br />I think this fabulous opening line from <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Voyage of the Dawn Treader</span> by<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">C.S. Lewis</span> speaks for itself.<br /><br />Beware, Donna, you've opened the floodgates--you may be getting a quote a<br />day from me!<br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br />Katherine Hyde<br /><a href="http://www.kbhyde.com/" target="_blank">www.kbhyde.com</a></span>Donna Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893342467211457045noreply@blogger.com8