I read all of these when I was very young, and I remember them not at all as books but as things that happened to me.
-- John Steinbeck, Steinbeck's Ghost
If you've been given a gift; you're honor-bound to use it for the greater good.
-- Danny, Quantum Prophecy
Books are heavy because they carry the world inside.
-- Meggie, Inkheart
The keener and clearer is the reason, the better fantasy it will make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth, then fantasy would languish until they were cured.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.
--Mrs. Cheever, Gone-Away Lake
A lie is a weed in the Lord's flower garden.
--Toby Boyce's Grandpa, Bull Run
Books are like truth serum. If you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
--Kevin, Freak the Mighty
...not knowing something doesn't mean you're stupid. All it means is that there's still room left to wonder.
-- Heidi, So B. It
I am tired, weary, I haven't a hope left. But I have to go on trying to get to the Mountain, as long as I can move.
-- Frodo, The Return of the King
It's more important to get the big concept than be an expert in the small stuff.
-- Addie, Hope was Here
The difficulty is...we often do not recognize evil. Evil can begin with a word.
-- Herr Schafer, After the Train
Catholic Mom did some good work for all of us looking for summer reading for our tweens:
http://catholicbookreview.blogspot.com/2009/04/good-books-for-your-summer-reading.html
The only book I recognized was Shooting the Moon, and I haven't read it yet. The rest of the titles look promising, too!
