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The Poisonwood Bible
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Book cover for Right as Rain (Derek Strange & Terry Quinn #1)
STRANGE stood in Chris Wilson’s bedroom, examining the objects on his dresser. There was a cigar box holding cuff links, a crucifix on a chain, a Mason’s ring with a black onyx stone, ticket stubs from the MCI Center and RFK, and a pickup ...more
Samuel L
I love this, because it reminds me of my own room in my parents' house in Washington, D.C., and because I think there is some universality in parents wanting to preserve a space in which they remember their children...before you know it, the children are adults, and I think parents often struggle with that.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
“Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them...and they flew.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

Willa Cather
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

Martin Luther King Jr.
“the time is always right to do the right thing”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

Jonathan Kozol
“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives...”
― Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

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