Jonathan Auxier Quotes

#1. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.

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#2. Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir

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#3. Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good.

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#4. Don't confuse what you do with who you are...

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#5. Suffice it to say, if one hopes to live in a world of wonders, he had better locate himself in a place where wondrous stories abound.

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#6. Nobody's too old for stories
not even God himself.

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#7. Hollow, melting the final bits of ice from the bare trees. Steam rose from the soil like a phantom, carrying with it a whisper of autumn smoke that had been lying dormant in the frosty underground.

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#8. It's no joke," he insisted. "Something's wrong with this whole place. You seen how pale they all are - it ain't natural." "That's just how folks look in England.

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#9. We'll never know. And maybe that's the best. It's a bad tale that has all the answers. -Molly

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#10. Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.

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#11. In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.

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#12. To demand promises is to invite disappointment -Hester

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#13. There's what's smart and what's right." - Molly in the Night Gardener

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#14. But that's how the tree works, ain't it? It gives you what you wish for but not in a way that makes things better. I suppose that's the difference between what you want and what you need." Molly

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#15. A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

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#16. I have called you forth not because of what you may become, but because of what you already are.

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#17. The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.

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#18. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

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#19. The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

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#20. A boy your age should know better than to consider anything impossible. (p 62)

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#21. The start of any journey-whether pilgrimage or promenade-is one of life's true joys.

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