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Sarah Zettel

"Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid."

Source : Sarah Zettel (2012). “Dust Girl: The American Fairy Trilogy”, p.9, Random House Books for Young Readers

Sarah Zettel

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“Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.”
“If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you are not happy. But once you achieve a certain level of material satisfaction then income has very little correlation with people's reported states of happiness, things like climate matter more, things like the culture of the country in which you're raised matter more and so the things really, let's face it, like individual temperament matter more than these things.”
“In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster”
“Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.”
“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”
“I donâ€™t think weâ€™ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if weâ€™re going to change whatâ€™s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution â€œschoolsâ€ very well, but it does not â€œeducateâ€; thatâ€™s inherent in the design of the thing. Itâ€™s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. Itâ€™s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.”
“Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.”
“Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

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