Keith Donohue Quotes

#1. The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.

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#2. The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

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#3. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

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#4. Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you'd like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

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#5. He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.

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#6. Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

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#7. Love makes us do wicked things.

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#8. As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

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#9. It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

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#10. He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

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#11. The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight.

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#12. In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.

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#13. I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

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#14. Some times our thoughts and dreams are more real than the rest of our experience and at other momentsthat which happens to us overshadows anything we might imagine.

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#15. To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

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#16. I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

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#17. Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

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#18. I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

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#19. The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted.

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#20. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

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#21. Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

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#22. Why do we believe in things we cannot see?

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#23. Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

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#24. October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

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#25. Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

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