Areata Quotes & Sayings

Darkness descended on him, and when it lifted, he knew that he would never see Kainene again and that his world would always be like a candlelit room; he would see things only in shadow, only in half glimpses. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions that are images using poems that are umbrellas. My best work is both/and, in-between, occupying several dimensions simultaneously.
(from my Poetics Statement in Troubling the Line) — Jay Besemer

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. — Duncan Sheik

I thought we had the kind of love that could do anything. — Elizabeth Norris

The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you. — Ogwo David Emenike

Don't make him anger please. I don't like it when he's anger. — Santino Marella

I opened the door to Maxon. He stood there wordlessly.
And all my anger made sense. I wanted everything from him and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him. It was infuriating that everyone had to have their hands on this - the girls, his parents, even Aspen. So many conditions and opinions and obligations surrounded us, and I hated Maxon because they came with him.
And I loved him even so. — Kiera Cass

response to intervention (RTI) is our best hope to provide every child with the additional time and support needed to learn at high levels. RTI's underlying premise is that schools should not delay providing help for struggling students until they fall far enough behind to qualify for special education, but instead should provide timely, targeted, systematic interventions to all students who demonstrate the need. To achieve this goal, we remain equally convinced that the only way for an organization to successfully implement RTI practices is within the professional learning community (PLC) model. — Austin Buffum