M Chipman > M's Quotes

“But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.”
― Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.”
― Donalyn Miller

“Why aren’t adults, even teachers, reading, and what is this doing to our students?”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.”
― Donalyn Miller, Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us. We just sort of accumulate them. —Lloyd Alexander”
― Donalyn Miller, Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

“Libraries are our friends.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Only you can control your future.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott