Jamie Olson

“...it takes a special person to be a great foster parent, someone who realizes that the child he or she is receiving isn't perfect and probably is carrying a lot of heavy emotional baggage and bad habits. But that understanding and acceptance are essential if foster parents truly hope to bring any sense of normalcy to the child living with them in their home. The rest is all uphill from there.”
― Jimmy Wayne, Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.”
― Nancy Atwell

“Where do dreams come from?

...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.”
― Marge Piercy