Wednesday morning inspiration and comfort

“Into the woods, It’s always when You think at last You’re through, and then Into the woods you go again To take another journey.” ―Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods “And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.” ―Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood “This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore “Now you’re on your own Only me beside you Still, you’re not alone No one is alone Truly No one is alone … You move just a finger, Say the slightest word, Something’s bound to linger Be heard No one acts alone.” ―Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods “There’s lots of kinds of chains. You can’t see most of them, the ones that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That’s another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.” ― Bruce Coville, Into the Land of the Unicorns “This is our world. Aye, there’s more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there’s all this joy, Kit. There’s all this lovely, lovely light.” ― David Almond, Kit’s Wilderness

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