dora

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
― Horace Mann

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I walked into his classroom. I existed. I was born.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa