Child Book Memories

Growing up I read books like I eat. For those of you who know me you are aware that means at practically an exponential rate. They were my salvation, an escape from my life into something wonderful. EVery book is a new world, new friends, new enemies, new loves and new adventures.
My love for reading has never lessened and I'd like to pay tribute to the books that touched me as a child and have stayed with me as an adult.

Alice in Wonderland

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

"There's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is -- The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."

The Little Prince

“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”

""The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."

A Wrinkle In Time

"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything"

""It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real."

The Chronicles of Narnia

“He’ll be coming and going...One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down-and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you musn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."