"I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults."

-- Justine Larbalestier

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“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.”
“Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.”

Source : Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin
“I love wine, I love wine reps, I love everything about the drinking world. In fact, as a recovering alcoholic, I adore the drinking world. I can't participate in it any longer and the only thing I don't like are people who don't listen to the words that are coming out of someone else's mouth. Which is why I try very hard to listen to the words that are coming out of someone's mouth.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from”
“We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.”
“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
“What musicals need is a new me.”

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