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" Grandpa,” Leeli said. “I can see the sea from here, and it’s not dark at all. It’s wide and terrible and beautiful. We’re supposed to go that way. I don’t know why, and I know I should be afraid, but there’s something…right about it. Something about the size of the ocean, about the way it stretches out forever and flat—it makes me want to sing.” It seemed a silly thing to say, but Leeli’s eyes were steady. She angled her chin and pulled her hair from her face so that the wind blew it out behind her. Podo smiled at his granddaughter and nodded. Janner looked beyond the mist but saw only the ocean and felt nothing other than a dizzy shiver in his stomach at how far below the falls it lay. "

Andrew Peterson , North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)


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Andrew       Peterson quote : Grandpa,” Leeli said. “I can see the sea from here, and it’s not dark at all. It’s wide and terrible and beautiful. We’re supposed to go that way. I don’t know why, and I know I should be afraid, but there’s something…right about it. Something about the size of the ocean, about the way it stretches out forever and flat—it makes me want to sing.” It seemed a silly thing to say, but Leeli’s eyes were steady. She angled her chin and pulled her hair from her face so that the wind blew it out behind her. Podo smiled at his granddaughter and nodded. Janner looked beyond the mist but saw only the ocean and felt nothing other than a dizzy shiver in his stomach at how far below the falls it lay.