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Sara
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“Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”
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“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”
― Bel Canto
― Bel Canto
“No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.
[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
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[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
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Sara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
564 books
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106 friends
784 books
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91 friends
480 books
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145 friends
352 books
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95 friends
316 books
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87 friends
325 books
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23 friends
245 books
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7 friends
283 books
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12 friends
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