Kit's Wilderness Quotes

#1. Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...

Deborah Moggach

#2. There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

Astrid Lindgren

#3. The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

William James

#4. Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

David Almond

#5. The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul.

David Almond

#6. The heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight, ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

Jet Black

#8. There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

David Almond

#9. In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

Sarah Moore Grimke