Katy
407 ratings (4.04 avg)
301 reviews

#42 best reviewers
#29 top reviewers

Katy

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Katy.


Book cover for How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
In plain language: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Children who come to school already rich in knowledge and vocabulary are poised to extend those advantages over children who grow up in comparatively language-poor homes with ...more
Loading...
T.S. Eliot
“Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.”
T.S. Eliot.

C.S. Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

Milan Kundera
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

year in books
Karen  ...
721 books | 29 friends

Carolin...
1,829 books | 171 friends

Jessica...
774 books | 17 friends

Bailey
793 books | 131 friends

Michell...
931 books | 82 friends

Joshua
380 books | 117 friends

Devadee...
443 books | 321 friends

Katie
1,192 books | 17 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Katy

Lists liked by Katy