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    Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

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    [A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

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    But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

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    Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

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    Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

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    Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

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    I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

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    I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

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    Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

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    Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

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    Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.

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    September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

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    The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

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    ...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

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    We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

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    When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

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    With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

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    Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

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    As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

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    Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

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    Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

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    I am here to help her learn," Tansy said, "not to keep her from it.

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    Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

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    Only the nonreader fears books.

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    Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.