Emma M.

“Even in okay times, there is a subterranean river of melancholy in me, and sometimes a productive afternoon is comprised of using YouTube videos of varying qualities like divining rods.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

“I like to say I’m a believer, not a knower. If you start to believe you know, be wary. I think of life as a state of constant learning.”
― M.T. Edvardsson, A Nearly Normal Family

“Oh God, to return. To find a way back to yourself, the version of yourself that wanted nothing more than what you have, the version of yourself paralyzed by the fear of living through what you've lived through, the stranger in your story who had just enough hope to make a path for you. But if we could go back, we'd never move forward.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

“Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession