Shannon

“When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student

“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch

“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”
― Mary Norris

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot