"Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them."

-- Susan Glaspell

#Use Quotes #May Quotes #Sake Quotes

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”

Source : Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.”
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.”
“There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.”
“And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.â€ She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. â€œDo you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. Weâ€™re at the mall. I want to buy you things. Itâ€™s like adolescent nirvana.â€ - Cora”

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