Destiney

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“September 11
We thought we'd outdistanced history
Told our children it was nowhere near;
Even when history struck Columbine,
It didn't happen here.

We took down the maps in the classroom,
And when they were safely furled,
We told the young what they wanted to hear,
That they were immune from a menacing world.

But history isn't a folded-up map,
Or an unread textbook tome;
Now we know history's a fireman's child
Waiting at home alone.”
― Richard Peck, Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young

“I read.. because one life is not enough”
― Richard Peck

“You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers