Marie

“Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
― A.A. Milne

“What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.”
― John Hubner, Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth

“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.”
― T.H. White, The Sword in the Stone