Ashley Epp

“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“Then it hits me. Hard. I'm like a nail struck by a hammer - brittle, quivering, sinking deeper into something from which there is no escape.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Beyonce 1.0 had arrived, and the way she held the camera's gaze made us feel as if hers was a party we were all invited to.”
― Veronica Chambers, Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter