Boogaerts Quotes & Sayings

Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing. — George Herbert

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. — Gabrielle Zevin

And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old ... maybe you should do some research before you go in? And I'm being serious here. There are a bunch of great blogs that will tell you the content of books. Reading Teen is one of them, and I've seen others, and I love what they do because they make YA books feel safe to protective parents. There are plenty of YA books that celebrate joy and beauty. Now, I would argue that many of them are also the "dark" books to which the article refers, and that saying they aren't suggests a pretty inattentive reader ... but that's neither here nor there. I'm not trying to bicker with the careful parents. I'm just saying: do some research and you'll be surprised what you find.
So, that's what I'm going to say about it. — Veronica Roth

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied. — David Cameron

People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion, freedom of the press, free enterprise as we understand it, or the secret ballot. Their needs are more basic: land, tools, fertilizers, something better than rags for their children, houses to replace their shacks, freedom from police oppression, medical attention, primary schools. — Mao Zedong

Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open. — William S. Burroughs

May all your days be filled with twinkles so bright that even in the darkest depths you shine brightly — Carmela Dutra

You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner. — Bryant McGill