"What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them."

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Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

Nancy Kress

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“I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.”
“We all have an idea of what we look like, and then you see a giant picture of yourself and you're like, "Oh my god, wait, that's me?" And it's such a specific version of me, with styling, and art direction... It's like when you hear yourself on a recording, and you go, "That's what I sound like?!" That's how I feel when I see images of me.”
“There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives.”

Source : Delia Parr (2010). “Love's First Bloom (Hearts Along the River Book #2)”, p.312, Bethany House
“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
“The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2018). “Thriving Through Uncertainty: Moving Beyond Fear of the Unknown and Making Change Work for You”, p.169, Penguin
“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”

Source : "Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom". Book by Rick Wormeli, p. 9, 2006.
“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”

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