I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It’s how rats are. It’s what makes them rats. But a human doesn’t run and hide in dark places, because he’s something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.
-Matteo Alacarn, The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer, 2002
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism.
-The monster, A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness 2011
(…) we must learn to accept that all creatures, however fearsome they may be, are of divine origin.
-Colleen Houck, Tiger’s Curse, 2011
Sleep is not, death is not;
Who seem to die live.
House you were born in,
Friends of your springtime,
Old man and young maid,
Day’s toil and it guerdon,
They are all vanishing,
Fleeing to fables,
Cannot be moored.
-Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Featured in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, 2011
So Many Thoughts 