Tyshawn Jones Quotes & Sayings

Two weeks later I'm the last one in the locker room to change for gym. The click of heels makes me look up. It's Carmen Sanchez. I don't freak out. Instead, I stand and look right at her.
"He was back in Fairfield, you know," she tells me.
"I know," I say, remembering the hand warmers in my locker. But he left. Like a whisper, he was there and then disappeared.
She looks almost nervous, vulnerable. "You know those giant stuffed-animal prizes at the carnival? The kind practically nobody wins, except the lucky few? I've never won one."
"Yeah. I've never won one, either."
"Alex was my giant prize. I hated you for taking him away," she admits.
I shrug. "Yeah, well, stop hating me. I don't have him, either."
"I don't hate you anymore," she says. "I've moved on."
I swallow and then say, "Me, too."
Carmen chuckles. Then, just as she walks out of the room, I hear her mumble, "Alex sure as hell hasn't."
What's that supposed to mean? — Simone Elkeles

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia. — Michael J. Sandel

Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their
life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. — Florence Nightingale

It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success — Sunday Adelaja

We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty — Cassandra Clare

Claim ownership of your dreams — Chris Gardner

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing. — Will Rogers

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors. — Plato