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• Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

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  Sake, Life Is, Glory

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.341, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

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  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

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  Sleep, Talking, Listening

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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• Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

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  Christian, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

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• In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it. Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its back.

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  Sea, Land, Feet

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

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  Needs, Narrative, Catechism

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• Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

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  Hate, Self, Loathing

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.337, Yearling

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• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

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  Shadow, Finals, Roles

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.54, Thomas Nelson

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• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
  Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

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  Summer, Mother, Self

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• I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

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  Baby, Golden Retrievers, Goldfish

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• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.

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  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

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  Men, Breakfast, May

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• In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

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  Imagination, Shadow, Discipleship

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• Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

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  Father, Honor, Dying

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

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  Laughter, Taken, Sadness

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• But God never seems capable of moderation

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  Moderation, Seems, Capable

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.12, Thomas Nelson

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• After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge. It turns sour and eats you up. We'll get out, but we'll get out for the sun, the moon, and mothers, not for small-souled enemies, though we'll deal with them when we get there.

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  Mother, Revenge, Moon

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• Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb. You should look under the bed.

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  Cousin, Men, Bed

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• We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.

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  Fall, Sleep, Creating

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• May my living be grace to those behind me.

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  Grace, May, Behinds

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

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  Narrative, Rhetoric

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• If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
  If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.)
  If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)

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  Son, Giving, Profound

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.41, Thomas Nelson

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• Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.

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  Fall, Men, Thinking

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.

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  Girl, Summer, Spring

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.60, Thomas Nelson

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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

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  Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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