"What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree..."

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Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elizabeth George Speare

#Children Quotes #Tree Quotes #Pity Quotes

“I think of every song like a game. It's like a video game: "Okay, I'm going to hop over here and if I press this drum, or if I hit this note, then that doorway opens. Oops, I fell down a trap door but I'm in a whole new world."”

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“We wanted to do a crime that the world would have to stand up and take notice.”
“I do. I canâ€™t say that being in the Valley of the Shadow of Death is something Iâ€™ve become all that accustomed to, and that Iâ€™m strong and nothingâ€™s bothering me. Itâ€™s no fun. It gets kind of lonely, yet I have to remind myself that every one of us will go through this someday in one way or another.”
“Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.”

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“Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.”
“Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.”
“A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.”
“I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.”

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