"I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later."

-- Mitali Perkins

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“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.”
“I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.”
“I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.”
“One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.224, Simon and Schuster
“It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.”
“Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.”
“I hate clichÃ©. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.”
“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.”

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