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Robert’s Quotes

“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”
― Kara Walker

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“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
― Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

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“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…. I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.”
― Barbara Cooney

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“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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