If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).