Michelle Walsh

“Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Amicable numbers are two different numbers related in the sense that when you add all their proper divisors together—not including the original number itself—the sums of their divisors equal each other. The numbers—esteemed by mathematicians—are considered amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 which, when added together, reach 284. And the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Some people have an interest in keeping the silence. Others have an interest in sowing hatred based on fear. Fear makes money, and it makes laws, and it takes land, and it builds settlements, and fear likes to keep everyone silent. And, let's face it, in Israel we're very good at fear, it occupies us. Our politicians like to scare us. We like to scare each other. We use the word 'security' to silence others. But it's not about that, it's about occupying someone else's life, someone else's land, someone else's head. It's about control. Which is power.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“This is not the way to teach a dog. It's true that she might not kill a hen again, but it will be a different kind of not-killing. It will be out of fear, of you. But make a dog learn out of love, then the not-killing it learns will be out of love, too.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho