Quote of the week

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”


Ursula Le Guin

Quote of the week

"Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."


 Terry Pratchett in Small Gods

Quote of the week

"Life isn't a fairy story with a happy ending. It's for real and you do the best you can."

Joyce Stranger in Walk a Lonely Road

Quote of the week

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."


J.R.R. Tolkien

Quote of the week

"And that quote, The only disability in life is a bad attitude, the reason that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true, because of the social model of disability. You know, no amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people who are deaf. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into Braille. It’s just not going to happen."


Stella Young

Quote of the week

"Fearing, you climbed the Mountain. Fearing, you faced its dangers. And fearing, you went on. That is real bravery, Rowan. Only fools do not fear."


Emily Rodda in Rowan of Rin

Quote of the week

"Me job as lookout allowed me to watch all kinds of people: poor, well off, and bloody rich. ... First-class passengers ain't so different from the second-class or the third. They all use the loo. They all go in to dinner. They all laugh and cry. They all have a future. They all have a plan. They all hold hands with their little ones."


Allan Wolf in The Watch That Ends the Night