Liz Overberg

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Liz is Currently Reading

Liz Overberg is currently reading

Not Quite Dead Yet

by Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: adult-fiction, currently-reading

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Apr 26, 2026 06:40PM

Liz Overberg is currently reading

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility

by Douglas Fisher (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: nonfiction, professional, currently-reading

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Liz’s Quotes

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4012 likes

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11503 likes

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42126 likes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22084 likes

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

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