N.D. Wilson Quotes - Page 2

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• No place is ever the same tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow

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• Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

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  Darkness, Caves, Bones

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.139, Random House Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

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  Dark, Past, Forever

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.

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  Moon, Air, Leaving

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.17, Random House Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• 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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• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Glory

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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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• Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

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  Dying, Live Well, Wells

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson

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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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• 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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• Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

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  Beach, People, East

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.186, 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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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

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  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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

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  Imagination, Shadow, Discipleship

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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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