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Book cover for These Precious Days: Essays
Books were not just my education and my entertainment, they were my partners. They told me what I was capable of. They let me stare a long way down the path of various possibilities so that I could make decisions.
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Kate DiCamillo
“What does it mean to be brave? This was a question Brother Edik asked himself as he walked through the dark woods with Jack Dory and Cannoc and Answelica.
To be brave is to not turn away.
To be brave is to go forward.
To be brave is to love.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

Kate DiCamillo
“Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy
tags: joy

Elizabeth Acevedo
“She knew since she was little, the world would not sing her triumphs, but she took all of the stereotypes and put them in a chokehold until they breathed out the truth.”
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

Kate DiCamillo
“How much could a heart hold?
... The goat was in his heart, too. Seemingly, the heart could hold an untold amount of things--letters and people and goats and bees.
Seemingly, there was no limit to what it could contain.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

Claire Keegan
“he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?”
Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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