““The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variety. But there are also no devils, no hellfire, no wicked witches, no ghosts, no haunted houses, no daemonic possession, no bogeymen or ogres. Yes, Teddy and Dolly turn out not to be really alive. But there are warm, live, speaking, thinking, adult bedf ellows to hold, and many of us find it a more rewarding kind of love than the childish affection for stuffed toys, however soft and cuddly they may be.””
![“Perhaps you intend, O my God, to relinquish everything and love them. Why else do I find it so hard not to follow them when they pass me? [...] Why do I imagine how I would hold them close, right up to my breath, with an inexistable caution, these dolls whom life has played with, flinging their…” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26e/rainer-maria-rilke-193_life_perhaps-you-intend-o-my-god-to-relinquis_776589.jpg)
