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11/16/2018

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Lately every ten minute Facebook session results in the viewing of at least 55 quotes that people have shared, oftentimes with the usual suspect captions of "Truth." "Accurate" or my personal favorite, "SO MUCH THIS."  
I admit, sometimes I like the quotes.  Often, as you can imagine, they warrant an eyeroll on my side of the screen.  What's the deal with quotes in old typewriter font?  They could say literally anything and people would be all over it, like OMG ACCURATE.  Also, admit it - most of them have to do with how she is hurting, but she is strong, or she is going through stuff, but she smiles, or she is like raindrops on the drive-thru window at a Wendy's on a chilly autumn day.  
To which I think (to both the poster and myself), for goodness' sake, get off Facebook and go read a book!
Books are FULL of SO MUCH THIS!  They're full of truthbombs and accurates!  Some books are even completely written in typewriter font! Like OMG, you just. couldn't. even.  Could you?

Just for fun, here a just a few quotes I love from my 5-star reads:

“You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’
I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. 
‘I know what you look like.” 
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." 
She shook her head. "Don't."
"What?"
"Don't talk about after."
"I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.” 
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.” 
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.” 
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.” 
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks.
"I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.” 
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Character is fate—that’s what he said. They’re bound up, those two, like brothers and sisters. You wanna know the future?” She points at Varya with her free hand. “Look in the mirror.” 
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith . . . that’s just between you and God.” 
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” 
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“In fact, if I were a betting man, I’d wager that only 10 percent of the English instruction list will answer your call for nominations. Why? First, because more than a third of our faculty now consists of temporary (adjunct) instructors who creep into the building under cover of darkness to teach their graveyard shifts of freshman comp; they are not eligible to vote or to serve. Second, because the remaining two-thirds of the faculty, bearing the scars of disenfranchisement and long-term abuse, are busy tending to personal grudges like scraps of carrion on which they gnaw in the gloom of their offices.” 
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“I'm not the messenger at all. 

I'm the message. ” 
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg!  Share some of your favorite book quotes with me!  (If you've ever been through the fresh hell known as having to watch Dora the Explorer, this is the part where I just stare at you, blinking.
12 Comments
Vicky
11/16/2018 10:32:57 am

I plan to leave a bunch of quotes on here.

This is legit.
;)

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Kimberly Scheirer
11/16/2018 11:20:13 am

#untruthbomb, "Vicky"

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Rachel
11/16/2018 12:01:02 pm

Can you take all these quotes and put them in typewriter font? I feel like I could identify better with them then.

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Kimberly Scheirer
11/17/2018 04:51:57 pm

I'll also add "word porn" after the quote. That helps, too.

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Vicky
11/16/2018 12:24:24 pm

“one must write and rewrite till one writes it right” –Ammon in “Garbage”

“The insane are right, but they’re still the insane” –Franz Wright in “The World”

“What to do, if the words disappear as you write—what to do if they remain, and you disappear” –Franz Wright from “Words”

“Have you ever suspected that you were harboring, without your knowledge, the seeds of a destiny you are afraid to contemplate, to name? Just wondering.” –Franz Wright from “Preliminary Remarks”

“A wise man told me that I’m wasting my life. I am. So are my friends. I have a friend whose mind could cure death, but he watches TV all day. He should be killed. I’d do it, but there’s a law. I’m caught by these things.” –Dennis Cooper from “Lecture, 1970”

“I believe it’s in my contract that the staff meeting ends when it degenerates into physical violence” –from Valarie Z. Lewis’s The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. –Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“It meant he looked to Authority for orders, whereas Vimes found it better to look to Authority to orders and then filter those orders through a fine mesh of common sense, adding a generous scoop of creative misunderstanding and maybe even incipient deafness if circumstances demanded, because Authority rarely descended to street level.” –Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch



From Frank Stepnowski:

Teaching Sucks: But We Love it Anyway
“…go above and beyond above and beyond” (37).
“…soft bigotry of low expectations…” (61).
“The students know that rigor requires effort; effort requires motivation, and that level of motivation can only be sustained by…love” (80).
“I wanted them to educate themselves because they should feel good about themselves….furthermore, there were a lot of people heavily invested in keeping them stupid so, at the very least, I wanted them to get smart enough to scare the living daylights out of those people” (123).
“…a small group of people are making a great deal of money investing heavily in the perpetual adolescence of our children” (131).
“…teaching will always, always boil down to whether you care or not, if you do, you’ll find a way to deal with everything and your kids will follow your lead” (167).
“To be a really good teacher, you have to adopt an almost monastic devotion to your craft, and that very often takes a terrible toll on you and those you love” (177).
“I don’t…care because I’m Michael…Jordan. How do you wanna measure greatness? Professional performance-like championship rings or playoff appearances? How about individual accolades like MVP or scoring titles? How about quantifiable improvement over time? Maybe intangibles---like heart, tenacity, and leadership? Whatever criteria you use, it doesn’t faze me, because I’m good, I know I’m good, and even if the evaluation model changes, I’ll still be good BECAUSE I CONSIDER IT MY JOB TO BE GOOD AT EVERYTHING” (187).
“Reading is the single most important factor in your intellectual and/or professional development…” (223).


Why Are All of the Good Teachers Crazy
“…align yourselves with those whose air you don’t feel you have the right to share. Basically…you don’t get better at anything by hanging with the losers who make you feel good about yourself” (Ed Trautz).
“If the kids know you don’t care, everything you do is an exercise in futility” (230).
“Thou shalt love your job. It can be love/hate, like any good relationship, but if you don’t love the kids, you’ll suck at this job, and we’ve got too many shitty teachers already” (312).
“…our pack---the underground group of teachers that are as serious about our jobs as we are irreverent to everything else” (317).
“…students need virtually zero extrinsic motivation in order to become the robots that our educational system has urged us to produce” (Alfie Kohn).
“You don’t teach because you want to, you teach because you have to” (329).

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Kimberly Scheirer
11/17/2018 04:52:44 pm

It really IS you! Originally I thought you were Levi masking as you.

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Vicky Gilpin
11/18/2018 06:17:26 am

What? These are some of my favorite quotes! Lol, but "Levi basking as you" is also good!

Lolo
11/17/2018 05:22:41 pm

"I love you. I love you all the way" from our book club book. All the ugly and wonderful things. Such a great book!!!!

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Kimberly
11/17/2018 05:36:25 pm

Awww! I'm glad you love me and that you loved the book so much. Can't wait to see you hopefully soon!

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Consuela Maria Sanchez-Diaz
11/20/2018 02:35:25 pm

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Bonquiqui
11/20/2018 02:37:32 pm

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Kimberly Scheirer
11/21/2018 07:27:52 am

I need to read it!




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