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“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.”
― Aditi

“A House of My Own
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”
― Philip Pullman

“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“What is worth having is worth working for.”
― Philip Pullman