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Jeanne DuPrau
“You did a remarkable thing, running out alone like that. Quite Courageous." "Well, I had to," said Lina. Mrs. Murdo raised her eyebrows questioningly. Lina was too tired to explain about trying to do a good thing to change the direction and how she had hoped that someone else might do it so she just shrugged her shoulders and said nothing. Mrs. Murdo ran a comb through her hair. "I believe a great many of us were thinking of doing the same thing," she said. "But no one quite had the courage. Only you." "I didn't feel courageous. " said Lina. "I felt afraid." "That makes it all the braver." said Mrs, Murdo. - The People of Sparks”
Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks

Phylicia D. Masonheimer
“Jesus' sacrifice wasn't just a nice plan to get us out of trouble. His punishment replaced ours! Because God so loved the world, Christ paid the debt we owed.”
Phylicia Masonheimer, Stop Calling Me Beautiful

John C. Holt
“But the greatest difference between children and adults is that most of the children to whom I offer a turn on the cello accept it, while most adults, particularly if they have never played any other instrument, refuse it.”
John Holt, How Children Learn

Amy  Chua
“That’s why I liked the Suzuki method of teaching piano. There are seven books, and everybody has to start with Book One. Each book includes ten to fifteen songs, and you have to go in order. Kids who practice hard get assigned new songs each week, whereas kids who don’t practice get stuck on the same song for weeks, even months, and sometimes just quit because they’re bored out of their minds.”
Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Jeanne DuPrau
“It's like this," Maddy said at last. "say the A people and the B people get in an argument. The A people do something that hurts the B people. The B people strike back to get even. But that just makes the A people angry all over again. They say, 'You hurt us, so we're going to hurt you.' It keeps on like that. One bad thing leads to a worse bad thing, on and on." It was like what Torren had said when he was telling her about the Disaster. Revenge. he'd called it. "Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, tying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. "maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "if someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." "Reverse the direction?" "Yes, turn it around." "How would you do that?" "You'd do something good." said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." "But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" "You wouldn't want to," Maddy said. "That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad."- The People of Sparks”
Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks

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