Bruce Coville

Author

1950-05-16

Quotes by Bruce Coville

• I don't want Tiamat to go back,— said Jeremy sullenly. "I want her to stay here with me."Miss Priest laughed. It was not a horrible laugh at all. "What a terrible idea!" she said. "Why do you want her to stay?"Because I love her. I don't want to lose her."Miss Priest reached out and took his chin in her hand. She looked into his eyes. "You silly boy,— she said. "Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people" they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

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• Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think? Go where? said the Scarecrow. Go forward, said the girl. See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young. Now? said the Scarecrow. Can you tell it now? After, said the girl. We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life And what's life? said the scarecrow. Moving, said the girl. Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me?

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• How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

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• Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

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• Hey, Geekoid! yelled Duncan Dougal, Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

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• I don't want Tiamat to go back,— said Jeremy sullenly. "I want her to stay here with me."Miss Priest laughed. It was not a horrible laugh at all. "What a terrible idea!" she said. "Why do you want her to stay?"Because I love her. I don't want to lose her."Miss Priest reached out and took his chin in her hand. She looked into his eyes. "You silly boy,— she said. "Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people" they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

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• Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

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• Hey, Geekoid! yelled Duncan Dougal, Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

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• Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think? Go where? said the Scarecrow. Go forward, said the girl. See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young. Now? said the Scarecrow. Can you tell it now? After, said the girl. We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life And what's life? said the scarecrow. Moving, said the girl. Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me?

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• How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

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• I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

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• When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

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• Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.

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• Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

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