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Carolyn

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Carolyn’s Bookshelves

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Carolyn’s Quotes

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: aslan, narnia

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“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

tags: compassion, empathy, pride, selfishness

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“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

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“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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