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Elizabeth Goudge foi uma escritora Inglesa, autora de romances, contos e livros infantis.

É autora de O Cavalinho Branco, tido pela autora J.K. Rowling como seu livro infantil predileto, e de outros três livros, incluindo "O Segredo do Vale da Lua", com uma adaptação para os cinemas. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Abril 1900 – 1. Abril 1984  •  Outros nomes Elizabeth Goudgeová, 依麗莎白·顧姬
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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.”

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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;”

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Fonte: Little White Horse

“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.”

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Fonte: The White Witch

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life…”

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Elizabeth Goudge livro Green Dolphin Street

Fonte: Green Dolphin Street

“There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.”

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Elizabeth Goudge livro The Little White Horse

Fonte: The Little White Horse

“In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.”

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Fonte: The Rosemary Tree

“What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”

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Fonte: The Scent of Water

“Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.”

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Fonte: The Scent of Water

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

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Elizabeth Goudge livro The Little White Horse

Fonte: The Little White Horse

“In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.”

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Elizabeth Goudge livro The Little White Horse

Fonte: The Little White Horse

“[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”

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Elizabeth Goudge livro Green Dolphin Street

Fonte: Green Dolphin Street

“The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.”

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The Child from the Sea (1970), Book 2, Chapter 1.5

“There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.”

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The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2

“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”

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The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2

“For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.”

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The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2

“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”

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The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 9.2

“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”

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The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2

“We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.”

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The Bird in the Tree (1940), Chapter 6.3