Avi quotes
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“It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.”
-- AviSource : Avi (1972). “Snail Tale”
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“A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.”
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“The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts”
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“There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.”
-- AviSource : Avi (2012). “Beyond the Western Sea #1: Escape From Home”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.
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“For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!”
-- AviSource : Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.”
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“Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.”
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“A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.”
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“I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.”
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“The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.”
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“I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.”
-- AviSource : Avi, (2004). “The Crispin: Cross of Lead”, Hyperion
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“It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.”
-- AviSource : Avi (2008). “The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“People are freer in America. But there are more tears.”
-- AviSource : Avi, Greg Ruth (2012). “City of Orphans”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
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