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21 " Then you're leaving the story unfinished, Mr. Author!""Not more unfinished then a story ought to be, I hope. If you ever knew a story finished, all I can say is, I never did. Somehow, stories won't finish. I think I know why, but I won't say that either, now. "
― George MacDonald , The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
22 " But that is the way fear serves us: it always takes the side of the thing that we are afraid of. "
23 " es tan tonta de las personas a imaginar que la vejez significa tortuosidad y witheredness y debilidad y palos y espectáculos y el reumatismo y el olvido! Es tan tonto! La vejez no tiene nada que ver con todo eso. La vejez derecho significa la fuerza y la belleza y la alegría y el coraje y los ojos claros y fuertes extremidades sin dolor. "
24 " She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age. "
25 " That is the way fear serves us: it always takes the side of the thing that we are afraid of. "
26 " I lost my way.""[...]. You wouldn't have lost your way if you hadn't been frightened. "
27 " but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. "
28 " "Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her. "