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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.

Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.

I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings.

Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?'
'What harm is there?' said the giant.

What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?

Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.

But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.

And where should mankind be without trees?