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“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“It does no good to tell a beautiful woman how beautiful she is. If she already knows, it gives her power over the fool who tells her. If she does not, there is nothing that can be said to make her believe it. Dusty did not know everything, but she knew that.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

“Love is just another name for what never gets old.”
― Jonah Lehrer, A Book About Love

“The will of God or the lunacy of man-- it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things.”
― James Hilton

“Complication comes in threes: love triangles, third wheels, the trinity.”
― Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

“I'll do it, even if I'm not ready, because you can't be ready for everything and sometimes over-thinking a challenge makes overcoming it impossible..”
― Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

“I understood there's a difference between compromise and cooperation, and that to rely on another takes a distinctive kind of strength.”
― Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

“For a moment, I'll just stand there, looking. Taking in the sight of so many familiar faces, the face of the mam I love. The person who taught me what it was to be honestly generous, to give without expectation or resentment. Whose steady demeanor and realism helped me to learn that attempting to achieve perfection with every decision is a sure path to unhappiness; that when it comes to choosing a house or a car or a television or a loaf of bread, good enough really is good enough. Whose cereal-slurping helped me learn that being irritated at someone isn't the same as ceasing to love him, a distinction that I know should be obvious but which has always troubled me. Who taught me that together is better than alone, even if it's sometimes harder, even if I sometimes forget.”
― Alexandra Oliva, The Last One

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“          Your desires,           Whether or not you achieve them           Will determine who you become.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“We can,
Each of us,
Do the impossible
As long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“I suppose all couples feel this way at some point—that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you’re with and think: Yes. It’s you.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“Why does every quote about bad stuff happening have to do with weather? And are there any about tsunamis? Because that feels like the more appropriate meteorological condition for my life right now.”
― colleen oakley

“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“I wanted to meet the monster.

Why go down if you can go up?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Fireworks. Snowflakes.
Sunstroke and frostbite.

It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected.

I expected demands.
He gifted me with tenderness.

I expected ego.
He let me experiment.

I expected disrespect.
He called me beautiful.

I expected him to expect perfection.
He taught me all I needed to know.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“So you sit and smile,
pretending like it's not
even fazing you,
not touching you at all.

So he looks you
in the eye, trying
to measure you,
find a hint of reaction.

And he says,
Tell me how you feel.

So you can't stand
it one more second,
and you close your eyes,
daring him to kiss you.

So he does, and it's
electric, high voltage,
stun-gun strength desire
jolting sinew and bone.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that’s exactly what we need.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up

“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“The problem with sex
Is that it changes everything.
Brad and I are still friends.
But we're a different kind
of friends. More than pals.
More, even, than fuck buddies.
It's like we're stand-ins
for the true loves of our lives.
And the only way to be that
is to let ourselves love
each other.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“Have you ever tried
To quit
a bad habit, one
that has come to define you?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass