But a truly fine education teaches the students to be curious, to ask questions, to augment their understanding of the world around them and feel at ease in it.
“If you do not believe in evil, you are doomed to live in a world you will never understand.”
― The World That We Knew
― The World That We Knew
“You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it’s more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What that means to you is that you can’t simply wait for it to be over. You have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow.”
― One True Loves
― One True Loves
“We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope will give us the truth we want to hear. The problem is, you can’t choose your truths. Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not.”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
“You feel like you stopped living when he went missing. You feel like the rest of your days are killing time until it’s time to die.”
― One True Loves
― One True Loves
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