"Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants."

-- Chris Crutcher

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“Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.”
“The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world”
“There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”
“Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.”
“I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.”
“People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.”
“The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.”
“He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix, Obert Skye, Alan Snow, Anne Ursu, Jane Johnson (2006). “Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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