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  • #1
    Kyle Keyes
    “You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
    Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

  • #2
    “As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #3
    C. Toni Graham
    “Life’s too short to walk around with your arms crossed and bottom lip poked out. Find a way to smile for yourself even if it’s as simple as licking the spoon clean or putting clean sheets on your bed.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #4
    Tom  Baldwin
    “When compared with what I have in mind for it, your property is blighted, dangerous, deteriorated, infectious, unhealthy, substandard, crime-infested, and irreparable. Once I have proven that, I will move in, and you will be moved away. You must leave so I can thrive.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #5
    Karl Braungart
    “Their war maneuvers excluded shame.”
    Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

  • #6
    S.W. Clemens
    “Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
    S.W. Clemens

  • #7
    Gregory Dickow
    “Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #8
    Claudia   Clark
    “At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #9
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “What was it about the holidays that made your whole life feel out of control?”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Christmas in Smithville

  • #10
    Mary Norton
    “would flower; and where birds came—and pecked”
    Mary Norton, The Borrowers

  • #11
    E.M. Forster
    “The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.”
    E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey

  • #12
    P.D. Eastman
    “You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
    P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee, Are You My Mother?

  • #13
    Eric Carle
    “He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...

    he was a beautiful butterfly!”
    Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • #14
    “I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #15
    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #16
    Orson Scott Card
    “The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
    tags: bean

  • #17
    Paul Cude
    “Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
    Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

  • #18
    Aesop
    “Heron.”
    Aesop, The Aesop for Children

  • #19
    Ian McEwan
    “It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”
    Ian McEwan



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