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“All I really want is to build a house with a nice, big porch that gets used every day.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“The reality is that fat people are often supported in hating their bodies, in starving themselves, in engaging in unsafe exercise, and in seeking out weight loss by any means necessary. A thin person who does these things is considered mentally ill. A fat person who does these things is redeemed by them. This is why our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an eating disorder — it’s a lifestyle change.”
― Lesley Kinzel