Laurie Faria Stolarz · 252 pages
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“You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.”
“If it were up to me, all boys would come with a label: Failure to take in small doses may result in irrational behavior, poor judgment, and estrangement from one's friends.”
“I do know that living in the past only messes up your present”
“Stalking the girls' softball team again?”
“You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It’s not just about bowls, you
know.”
“Dig a little, he continues. Search. Examine. Sculpt from the inside out, and not the other way around. Don’t be afraid to screw up along the way.”
“In other words, my pot doesn't work?"
"It doesn't have a pulse," he says.
"I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?”
“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”
“Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.”
“She was glad she didn’t know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that
got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.
[Ehlena]”
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