Denise Caparula

“The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Is there any more futile, soul-irradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner?”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more repressive.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books