💬 Quotes

"The shadows of the moon-lit moor become ghosts of our own making."

"It is a singular thing that the more mysterious a matter is, the less it should be regarded as a mystery."

"The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm."

"The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder."

"To be a person is to be part of a mysterious process. We are not just spectators, but actors in the play."

"A white rabbit is being pulled out of a top hat. Because we are small creatures, we climb up the fine hairs of the fur to get a better view, but we are too small to see the magician."

"Perhaps the world is a dream, and we are merely the figures that the dreamer is imagining."

"Whatever we see, we see because of the way our minds are structured. We are wearing tinted glasses that we can never take off."

"If human brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we would be so simple that we couldn't."

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings."

"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."

"She began to look at her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her."

"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude."

"It was not a despair, but a feeling of absolute contentment to be alone, to be herself."

"She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known."

"Oh, I am so scared of what is at the end of this book!"

"Please, please do not turn the page."

"I am so smart to think of that!"

"You are my best friend, and you have let me down."

"Well, look at that. This is the end of the book. And the only one here is me. I, Grover, am the monster at the end of this book."