Jackson Millare

“If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s really cool beans.
-Summer Dawson”
― R. J. Palacio, Wonder

“Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. “I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can - I think I can.”

[…]

“I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.

I thought I could.

I thought I could.

I thought I could.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Defeat Your Own Dragon”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean