Sladers Quotes & Sayings

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away. — Emma Donoghue

My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history to offer. There is no difficulty not of my own making. — Sebastian Barry

Me: Oh! One time in high school, I spent the night at a girl's house who I didn't know very well. We made out. I wasn't into it, and it was really gross, but I was seventeen and curious.
Ridge: No. That does NOT count as a flaw, Sydney. Jesus Christ, work with me here. — Colleen Hoover

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could. — Terry Pratchett

As I completed dinner preparation, Rosie set the table - not the conventional dining table in the living room, but a makeshift table on the balcony, created by taking a whiteboard from the kitchen wall and placing it on top of the two big plant pots, from which the dead plants had been removed. A white sheet from the linen cupboard had been added in the role of tablecloth. Silver cutlery - a housewarming gift from my parents that had never been used - and the decorative wineglasses were on the table. She was destroying my apartment! — Graeme Simsion

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi

While it is said that children accept their circumstances as normal, both Vicky and I understood that we were different. We — Elizabeth Strout

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug. — Kristin Cashore