"Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's."

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Source : Karen Hesse (2012). “Out of the Dust”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

Karen Hesse

#Dust Quotes #Wind Quotes #California Quotes

“We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.”
“Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)”
“In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.”
“Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.”
“The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.”
“You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.”
“If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.”

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