April Griffin

“any book could be a self-help book if you read it right.”
― Roxanna Elden, Adequate Yearly Progress

“It’s not the tragedy that can ruin you—it’s your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It’s up to you.”
― Colleen Coble, The House at Saltwater Point

“history has proven repeatedly that lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Adequate Yearly Progress. He turned the phrase over in his mind, shuffling it like a deck of cards. That first word was where they got you, he decided. Yearly and progress were concrete terms. But adequate? That was the moving target. Adequate was the part that got decided in an office somewhere, at the last minute, based on what would look good in the newspaper, or get someone reelected, or highlight some new defect that called for TransformationalChange”
― Roxanna Elden, Adequate Yearly Progress