I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, ta — Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
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I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred names.

— Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
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