Jane Yolen: Doing

Jane Yolen is American speculative fiction and children's writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff… and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”

Jane Yolen book Armageddon Summer

Source: Armageddon Summer

“Wars do not make heroes of everyone.”

Jane Yolen book Briar Rose

Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 25 (p. 146)

War

““We are all sleeping princesses some time. But it is better to be fully awake, don’t you think?”…“Americans do not want to be awake?”
“Oh,” Becca said, “we like the truth all right. When it’s tidy.”
“Truth is never tidy. Only fairy tales.””

Jane Yolen book Briar Rose

Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 32 (p. 196; ellpsis represents elision of a brief narrative section)

Truth , Thinking , Sleep , Time