28 Quotes by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it’s a real curse in a dark alley.

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there’s room for Running Don’t do anything that can’t be a Game.

Just looking at the outside of the library made Robin lose herself for a minute, remembering the feel of libraries. There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. Libraries had always seemed almost too good to be true.

Nothing’s real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn’t really mean anything.

Something’s going to happen!

But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.

Forest is and was and will be. Root and roof and all between. Pan-fruit feed me, nid-bough hold me, Peace and Joy be ever green.