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“Maybe my person and I won’t fit together like two halves of the same whole, but neither did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle. They didn’t erase each other’s pain; they just made it bearable.”
― Waiting for Tom Hanks
― Waiting for Tom Hanks
“Shakespeare, lodged in my head from one of the only classes I ever attended regularly in high school, runs through my mind: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.”
― When We Believed in Mermaids
― When We Believed in Mermaids
“The whole world is one table by a window in a café-bar in Manchester and the person sitting opposite me. If joy could be seen by the Hubble, tonight scientists would record a peculiar iridescence on an island north of the equator.”
― You Had Me At Hello
― You Had Me At Hello
“I recall a Tao of Mindy phrase: ‘You can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.”
― You Had Me At Hello
― You Had Me At Hello
“...the notion of the classroom as an intellectual community gets lost when conference rooms by the principal's office are turned into data rooms - rooms in which walls, floor to ceiling, are covered with test scores of every child in the school - and "Days Until the TEST" banners greet students and parents as they enter the school. That, at the very least, suggests the school is more interested in making sure students pass a test than in creating an intellectual community.”
― Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
― Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
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