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Category: Kathryn Lasky

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

Hate, Me, Sweet

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

Hate, Live, Candy

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

Man, American, Moon

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

denial, freedom, vow

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can’t see.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again.

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

Dreams weigh nothing. – Marie Antoinette

dreams, kathryn, lasky, marie-antoinette, princess, versailles

Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?

bears, funny, motherhood, wolves

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. ‘Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

funny, insult, nonsense, otulissa

You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky,” Gwynneth said. “The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon’s light that you felt and remember.” Gwynneth paused. “It is the value, the quality that lives on.