The books of my numberless dreams

"Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life."

— Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)

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"I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be… This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages…the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide… Far too many people misunderstand what putting away childish things means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I’m with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don’t ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child’s awareness and joy, and be fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup."

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Madeleine L’Engle

Another quote of hers that seemed a fitting response to this piece by Joel Stein on children’s books.

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“They sang it together, but their thoughts went off to different places, to different people. Maybe the wrong places, the wrong people. How did anyone know? Mistakes would have to be made. Maybe a lot of mistakes. It was okay… .

Someone opened up the jar. The lightning bugs knew what to do. They flew out into the night air, every last one. Blinking, ‘Here I am.’”

—Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

lovelyasadream:

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What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination, but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, “What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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ianbrooks:

by kris straub:

“Since I was little, I’ve always looked at everything through the many-worlds interpretation and it pollutes my understanding of the world and causality. Everything that never happened, alongside the one thing that did happen, passes into everything that ever could happen — but first, all these universes must squeeze themselves through an impossibly-small, you-shaped bottleneck.”

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