Jacob Grimm Quotes

“Very well, then, I said. I look forward to the day when every schoolchild will read Shakespeare’s great comedic play All’s Good That Ends Good.”

“So why not mercy and justice to sweet youth from an omnipotent and benevolent Creator? There are only three answers. He is not omnipotent, or he is not benevolent, or-the dreariest possibility of all-he is inattentive. What if that was what happened to my nephew? That God’s gaze had merely strayed elsewhere?”

“In the old tales, kindness is the purest form of heroism. Find the character who meets the world with a big heart and an open hand and you have found your hero or heroine.”

“He turned toward my voice. ‘Am I well?’ His mocking tone was unmistakable. ‘Am I well? Why can’t you just talk like everyone else? Why can’t you just say, ‘How you doin’? You doin’ good?‘”

“One does not know love until it arrives, and it’s arrival will always surprise.”

“Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.”

“The studies, Jeremy, I said. The studies, the studies, the studies.”

“But I’d hate to think an angel couldn’t sing a little better than that.”

“What follows it the strange and fateful tale of a boy, a girl, and a ghost”