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

“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

“Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“This was a hard-won but brilliant education: I had realized, as life is always willing to instruct, that the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what holds up the rest. The realized life versus the external picture of it: the assumption and projections that we all make about other people's lives.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship