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Surely I am old enough to know that there’s no point in wanting anything, she thought.
–Earth Logic (Elemental Logic)
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Some things you wanted
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And one final word from Santa on this lovely Christmas day:
“My dear people: there seem to get more and more of you every year. I get poorer and poorer: still I hope that I have managed to bring you all something you wanted, though not everything you asked for…”
–Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Discipline of Hope
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“Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope. And living in hope is a discipline, a practice that can be learned.”
–Fire Logic (Elemental Logic)
Security or Identity?
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On the Steps of the Palace
“So then which do you pick:
Where you’re safe out of sight,
And yourself, but where everything’s wrong,
Or where everything’s right,
And you know that you’ll never belong?”
–Into The Woods, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine
Wishing, Wanting and Solitude
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Cinderella At the Grave
“I’ve been good and I’ve been kind, Mother,
Doing only what I learned from you.
Why, then, am I left behind, Mother,
Is there something more that I should do?”“Are you certain what you wish is what you want?”
–Into The Woods, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine