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You can’t dread what you can’t experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That’s as bad as it gets.
“But a man may dream, and in his dreams be other than he is.”
― The Golden House
― The Golden House
“I am not against teaching students how to take a test. Indeed, we want all of our students to have test-taking knowledge. However, the emphasis of teaching reading through the lens of preparing students for state-mandated tests has become so completely unbalanced that it is drowning any chance our adolescents have of developing into lifelong readers.”
― Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
― Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
“He's dead.'
'Dead?'
Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.”
― The Chalk Man
'Dead?'
Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.”
― The Chalk Man
“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
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