DaNae

“Worst of all, some sixth graders hadn’t started wearing deodorant yet, and they really needed it.”
― Mary E. Lambert, Distress Signal

“Scarlett looked at him. It was a miracle of a kind: Albert always saw the best in people, even when they were trying to riddle him with bullets. All his life, the world had rubbed savagely against him, trying to wear him down. And what had happened? His innocence had been burnished by that rubbing—burnished till it shone. It was the hard, cruel things around him that had been worn away.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Legendary Scarlett and Browne

“As far as I could tell, this movie was about parents who had two cute children they were determined to spend as little time with as possible. And so they hire a woman who constantly gaslights the kids and makes them doubt their own sanity; she takes them on fantastical trips, then says they never happened. She gives them the powers of flight and time travel, encourages them to surrender to the magic and enjoy themselves, then acts all affronted and accuses them of lying when they mention how fun the adventure was. The whole movie seemed to be introducing the concept of what a nanny was and, at the same time, arguing against ever employing one.”
― Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

“When you rush you pen things you didn't mean and you tire. It takes patience to say exactly what one means, to think of the right word. Remember: words, especially those written, are immortal.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent