#hee

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#death #destiny #fate #death

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#conversation #delilah-mcphee #humor #jules #paying-attention

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #forgive #forgiveness #karl-lagerfeld #past

Insomnia I cannot get to sleep tonight. I toss and turn and flop. I try to count some fluffy sheep while o'er a fence they hop. I try to think of pleasant dreams of places really cool. I don't know why I cannot sleep - I slept just fine at school. ↗

— Kathy Kenney-Marshall

#humour #insomnia #school #sleep #dreams

Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly... ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson III

#dreams

How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to do all night? ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sweet-valley #wheelchairs #dreams

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#education

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#broadsheet #journalism #newspaper #sherlock-holmes #the-times

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). ↗

— Mike Schmoker

#learning #read #reading #school #teaching

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system