"Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends."

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Source : Caroline B. Cooney (2008). “What Janie Found”, p.100, Laurel Leaf

Caroline B. Cooney

#Pain Quotes #Class Quotes #Tea Quotes

“Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.”
“The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.”
“Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?”
“There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”
“Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.”
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
“Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.”

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