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“Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“We believe that as teachers, our job is not to establish a student’s ‘potential’, but to move them onwards from wherever they may be. In other words, the focus should be on the quality of our instruction, not on students’ ‘ability’ or ‘disability’.”
― James Murphy, Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading