#lea

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#white-oleander #hurt

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#leo-valdez #percy-jackson #piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #grace

Don’t leave me,” he whispers. “Oh, for crying out loud—no! I am not going to go!” I shout and it’s cathartic. There, I’ve said it. I am not leaving. “Really?” His eyes widen. “What can I do to make you understand I will not run? What can I say?” He gazes at me, revealing his fear and anguish again. He swallows. “There is one thing you can do.” “What?” I snap. “Marry me,” he whispers. ↗

— E.L. James

#marry-me #running

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#learn #obstacle #often #teach #those

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"... You never, ever say something like that. ↗

— Tite Kubo

#sisters

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles? ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#learning #math #mathematics #art

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#reading #seuss #read

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#greatest #learning #most #source #unhappy

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#field #learns #much #poem #prosper

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ↗