R Carroll

“One of the many joys of teaching is that you get to introduce students to work you admire. Since you can never relive the experience of seeing or hearing or reading a work of art for the first time, you can do the next best thing: you can teach it. And, through the discoveries your students make, you can recapture, vicariously, some of the exhilaration that accompanied your own discovery of that work long ago.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town: The Timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama

“Some things don’t bear the weight of words.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“In a country where youth is adored, we lost ours before we were out of our twenties. We learned to accept death there, and it erased our sense of immortality. We met our human frailties, the dark side of ourselves, face-to-face … The war destroyed our faith, betrayed our trust, and dropped us outside the mainstream of our society. We still don’t fully belong. I wonder if we ever will. —WINNIE SMITH
AMERICAN DAUGHTER GONE TO WAR”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Which is just to say, be careful when choosing what you’re proud of—because the world has every intention of using it against you. —”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility