“About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say "I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it’s all dark moving water again.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Our stories don't make their homes in heavy books. We hold our stories in our songs.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“I hear the fear and hope fighting in my voice.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“The grocery store
has does and does
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“The grocery store
has rows and rows
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“His voice was deep,
like a storm coming,
but gentle,
like the rain ending.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“A hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Those are the stars that will guide my path home.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Life changes, so you must hope.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“Kek finds sun when the sky is dark.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“jammed inside the bastard for three hours.’). And that bridge, the bridge . . . have to make a pilgrimage to”
― Iain Banks, quote from The Bridge
“We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating adults (who then become parents and teachers) who don't read much. They may be capable of reading well enough to perform academic and informational reading, but they do not love to read and have few life reading habits to model for children.”
― Donalyn Miller, quote from The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“Inkblot shadows of the canopy swayed and rolled on the forest floor in the cloudy light, almost as if the ground itself was moving.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from The Pursuit of Holiness
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