A Touch That Never Hurts

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens

They Have Made Me

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten: even so, they have made me. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Lifelong Romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde

The Axe To Break The Ice

A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. What we need are book that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more that we love ourselves, that makes us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ~ Franz Kafka

Stuff Your Eyes With Wonder

Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~ Ray Bradbury

Delicious First Words

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. you never quite know where they’ll take you. ~ Beatrix Potter

A Christmas Melody by Anita Stansfield

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Next time you’re afraid, honey, you just imagine one of these heroes standing guard at your bedroom door. I know that angels are real, child. I’ve felt their presence in my life.