Demissie Church Quotes & Sayings

If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are. — Ellen Stofan

If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly haven't, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way.
Time to read is always time stolen.
Stolen from what?
From the tyranny of living." — Daniel Pennac

I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me. — Essence Atkins

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow. — Terry Pratchett

Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary. — Alex Pareene

True heros are made of hard work and integrity. — Hope Solo

You have a house if not a home," she spat. "You have people who care for you if not about you. You may not have everything you want, but I'd wager you have everything you could ever need, and you have the audacity to claim it all forfeit because it is not love."
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"Love doesn't keep us from freezing to death, Kell," she continued, "or starving, or being knifed for the coins in our pocket. Love doesn't buy us anything, so be glad for what you have and who you have because you may want for things but you need nothing. — Victoria Schwab

White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default. — Becky Albertalli

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself ... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education ... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances. — John Taylor Gatto