Found Margaret Peterson Haddix Quotes & Sayings

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all. — Neil Gaiman

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs. — Kanye West

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes - who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. — Thomas Mann

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities — David Mazzucchelli

The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers — Lev S. Vygotsky

your own performance is either improved or diminished by the other people in your scenario. — Henry Cloud

It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We're much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that ... But it's what I meant. — Mary Eva Swatek

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told — Henry David Thoreau

You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul. — Martha Sweeney

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty. — Noah Levine