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Happy birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson!
'Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.'
It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for 100 years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, silent witnesses.― GWillows
For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
-Christina G. Rossetti
Cold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid --
Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade."
"Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall,
"But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all."
-Rudyard Kipling
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-Oscar Wilde (art by Icart)
“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.”
― Ray Bradbury
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin
She bellowed 'Help! Let me out!
The Magic Fairy heard her shout.
'There is a Disco at the Palace!
'The rest have gone and I am jealous!
'I want a dress! I want a coach!
'And earrings and a diamond brooch!
-Roald Dahl #FairyTaleTuesday