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Hal Higdon
“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”
Hal Higdon

E.L. Konigsburg
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Matthew Dicks
“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Patrick Ness
“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

Holly Goldberg Sloan
“When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.”
Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

345724 Fonville Winans, Photographer — 14 members — last activity Nov 06, 2017 05:55PM
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