"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."

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Kate DiCamillo

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Should Quotes

“In the future, 3hree voices will be followed by 4our and 5ive voices.”
“I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The bus makes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I donâ€™t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity.”
“We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.”
“You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space”

Source : Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.”
“I worked as a title searcher for almost 25 years. It took awhile for it to become fulfilling because it doesn't pay a whole lot, takes a long time to learn, and in the years of learning there are endless frustrations. And then it creeps up on you that you're able to solve problems, answer questions and rebut any challenges to your work.”
“The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.”

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