“Oskar's particular blessings are blessings that only a major cosmopolitan city can bestow on a refugee. They represent all our potential to survive and even thrive in the face of great loss.”
― Oskar and the Eight Blessings
― Oskar and the Eight Blessings
“Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight.”
― The Address
― The Address
“Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
“Oskar is the fruit of those fantasies -- the idea that what needed to be saved was not just lives but hope.”
― Oskar and the Eight Blessings
― Oskar and the Eight Blessings
“And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders”
― A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection #1-3 with Bonus Material: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window
― A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection #1-3 with Bonus Material: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window
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