May 2009
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I don’t have a prayer if you don’t have charity in your heart.
– Kate Voegele // Devil In Me (Live Acoustic)
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Peter Pan (1911)
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, “Who is Tinker Bell?”
“O Peter,” she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
“There are such a lot of them,” he said. “I expect she is no more.”
J. M. BARRIE
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Yet man was born to trouble, like sparks fly upwards; innocent.
– The Fray // Absolute (Job 5:7)
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Peter Pan (1911)
All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
J. M. BARRIE
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If I get to your heart soon, I’ll call a perfect afternoon.
– Gavin DeGraw // Dancing Shoes
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Through the Looking Glass (1872)
“Oh, don’t go on like that!” cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. “Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come to-day. Consider what o’clock it is. Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
LEWIS CARROLL
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She pitied him deeply. “What is his sorrow?” she asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, “It’s all his fancy, that: he...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
“‘Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is - Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love, that makes the world go round!”
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
“Ah, well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess[.]
LEWIS CARROLL
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at his time of life.
The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren’t to talk nonsense.
The Queen’s argument was, that if...