Gail

“Twenty days,” I said, looking at my father. “I’d say you’re right.” We smiled and stroked the leaves like swaddled babes, enjoying the soft music they created together in the breeze.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“that they’ll die poor if they never visit the Smokey Mountains,”
― Richard Doster, Crossing the Lines

“Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969