"Picture books are an emotional medium.Â They need to make us feel something."

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Marla Frazee

#Book Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.”
“I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.”
“In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater.”
“If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.”
“I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.”
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.”
“I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.”

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