#nicholas

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ↗

— William Joyce

#nicholas-st-north #north #ombric #pretending #rise-of-the-guardians

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#before #dry #flew #fly #full

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... ↗

— William Joyce

#imagination #journeys #joy #lands #nicholas-st-north

It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers-points in time and places on the map.The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same , he said, you can no longer return to it-and then it becomes a point in time. ↗

— Nicholas Christopher

#life #nicholas-christopher #change

Why are the photographs of him as a little boy so incredibly hard to look at? Something is over. Now instead of those shiny moments being things we can share together in delighted memories, I, the survivor, have to bear them alone. So it is with all the memories of him. They all lead into blackness. All I can do is remember him, I cannot experience him. Nothing new can happen between us. ↗

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

#grief #loss-of-child #nicholas-wolterstorff #death

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #nicholas-sparks #the-rescue #youth #life

You'll always be my friend, won't you Fred? Don't let me fuck this up. I need you in my life now. I need the golden eyed girl who can make me smile. ↗

— L.H. Cosway

#life

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. ↗

— Sarah Miller

#inspirational #life #otma #romanovs #royalty

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #love

I believe it was the novelist Robert Heinlein," Nicholas drawled, "who said that 'women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax, and get used to the idea'. ↗

— Janet Chapman

#nicholas #men