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“See the stars, Lily?"She sighed, surrendering. "Of course.""Do you think they can see the sun coming up?""I don't know. Probably?""Do you think they're scared?""They're burning balls of gas, Calder.""Oh, c'mon. Where's the poet in you?"She exhaled, and I sensed her smile. "I see. Well, in that case, yes. They've finally come home. They are triumphant in their midnight kingdom. But the enemy approaches. They have the numbers on their side, but the enemy is bigger, stronger, with a history of winning that goes back to the dawn of time. They're definitvely terrified."I nodded. She understood my analogy."But they don't run, Calder.”
Anne Greenwood Brown“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
Alexander Calder“No matter how much you try, succeed, achieve, give, love, care or share, there will always be that one person who needs to bring you down. So, hold your head high and know you have done it and nobody can take that away.”
Lynda A Calder“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it”
Jason Calder“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.”
Charles Sheffield, Brother to Dragons“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?”
Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer“What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.”
Blue Balliett, The Calder Game“Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all," Petra said softly.”
Blue Balliett, The Calder Game“Do what you know needs to be done.”
Lynda A. Calder, The Enigma Diaries: Hidden History