A.C.

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

“You aren’t lacking the thing that makes a person a person. You have too much of it. You don’t always know what to do with it or you get clogged with it
but it’s there. It’s there inside of you. I see it all shifting through you, in your eyes, and it’s all real. It’s
all there, there’s just too much for you to deal with sometimes.”
― K. Sterling, Hide and Keep