"I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Kids Quotes #Artist Quotes #Play Quotes

“Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter”
“You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.”
“I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.”
“Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.”
“Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.”
“The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.”
“Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.”
“But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.110, Penguin

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