Monday, 13 April 2020

14 April: Anne Sullivan Quotes

This date in 1866 saw the birth of Anne Sullivan, teacher best known as the tutor of Helen Keller. 10 quotes from her: 

  1. People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
  2. Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
  3. We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
  4. We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
  5. Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
  6. You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
  7. Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
  8. We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
  9. We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush.
  10. Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.


My Books 

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The Ultraheroes series

Several new groups of superheroes, mostly British, living and working (mostly) in British cities like London and Birmingham. People discovering they have, and learning to live with, superpowers. Each book is complete in itself although there is some overlap of characters.

















The Raiders series

A tale of two dimensions, and worm hole travel between the two. People displaced in both time and space, learning to get along and work together to find a way home while getting used to the superpowers wormhole travel gave them. A trilogy.













Golden Thread

A superhero tale with a difference. Five heroes from another dimension keep returning - whenever they return, they have a job to do and are a well-meshed team in order to do it. Until one time, something goes wrong...













Tabitha Drake series

A different kind of power - the ability to talk to dead people. Tabitha has it, and murder victims seek her out to make sure justice is done. Tabitha has this and a disastrous love life to cope with.
















Short story collections


Some feature characters from the above novels, others don't. They're not all about superheroes. Some are creepy, romantic, funny. 




















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