“People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“The time to lead is now.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“one thing I have learned since coming to Tosu City is that age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“Growing up, I was taught that it’s impossible to know what the right thing always is. The best you can do is to try to do what you think is right for yourself and the people around you.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“Most choose to pretend they’re ignorant of the facts because the system works. The idea of changing it scares them more than giving it their tacit approval.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“Jumping in before you know what you’re getting into is a good way to get hurt,”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“Leaders are often forced to make determinations they find distasteful for the good of the people they serve.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“my willingness to assume everyone believes in the values with which this country was founded and I was raised is flawed. I”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“there are others who are bitter and angry.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“peace will come accompanied by sacrifice and death. I”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“the decision to kill is easy but living with it is hard.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“Things don’t always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.” Nothing”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“The only way to live with our actions is to end the very thing that caused them. Or die trying. He”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“To keep Stacia from making decisions on her own, especially ones I do not agree with, I will have to make choices with more speed.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“My father chose his side. Now I'm choosing mine.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Graduation Day
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“When people are cruel it's often said that they have no heart, only a cold space or lump of ice in their chest. This was never true of Avalon. She had no heart, everyone knew, but there was nothing cold about her. In her chest burned an enormous coal, white-hot, brighter than the North Star. North knew the truth about Avalon: she was made of fire, and she would burn them all.”
― Kirsty Logan, quote from The Gracekeepers
“It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from The Brightest Night
“I think, because…well, I like the idea of coming up with a story that never existed before, but I don’t really want to be in charge. I don’t want to be famous. I guess I like the idea of sitting in the dark and knowing that I created the thing on screen, that it’s my story, but, like, no-one else has to know it was me. Does that make sense?”
― Melissa Keil, quote from Life in Outer Space
“We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story.”
― Jeff Zentner, quote from The Serpent King
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