Our Class Blog
Over the course of the year I will sometimes be utilizing this blog to teach you new information, and provide an opportunity to engage each other in conversation outside of the classroom. Right now, I just want to make sure everything is working correctly. So each of you needs to respond in the comments section of this post by presenting one of your favorite quotes. This time, you don't need to do any analysis. Just type your quote and indicate what book it came from and who wrote it.
Take a little time to see what your peers selected. Feel free to write a reply to anyone who posts a quote you love as well. Better yet, go and find them and talk about it in person.
"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” ~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park
ReplyDeleteI love that quote. Great book too.
Delete"When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind." -R.J. Palacio, Wonder
ReplyDeleteThis is on my list of books to read with my kids. Do you think it is good for a seven-year-old?
Delete“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
ReplyDelete“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
ReplyDelete-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
One of my favorite books. Have you read THE BOOK THIEF by the same author? Much, much better.
Delete"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." -1984, George Orwell
ReplyDelete"At some point, everything's going to go south on you...you can either accept that, or you can get to work." -Andy Weir, The Martian
ReplyDeleteLoved that book. That character is amazing.
Delete“I knew there was going to be pain weather I did anything wrong or not-so maybe I should do something to actually deserve it.” -Rebecca Donovan, Reasons to Breathe
ReplyDelete"At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them."- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
ReplyDelete"You can complain that roses have thorns, or you can be grateful because thorn bushes have roses." ~ Tom Wilson from "365 Days Of Wonder"
ReplyDelete“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” -All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite books of all time.
Delete"But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of the desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventures bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abyss of space." -White Fang, Jack London
ReplyDelete"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
ReplyDelete– H.Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
“Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it’s whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.” -Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
ReplyDelete“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”
ReplyDelete― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ReplyDelete~André Gide
Sejal K
ReplyDelete"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away." ---Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
"Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up"- Veronica Roth, Divergent
ReplyDelete"You can't blend in when you were born to stand out"- R. J. Palacio, Wonder
ReplyDelete" Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
ReplyDelete"The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today."
ReplyDelete― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
"when there's and elephant in the room, you can't pretend it's not there and discuss the ants."- Ellen Wittlinger, Bind Faith
ReplyDelete“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”
ReplyDelete― Ann M. Martin, A Corner of the Universe
"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." - Unknown
ReplyDelete"Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived."
ReplyDelete-N.D. Wilson, Death by Living
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
ReplyDelete― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
"Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies." -Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed
ReplyDelete“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her.”
ReplyDelete― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
"Think a little less, live a little more."
ReplyDelete- Jay McLean, Where the Road Takes Me
"We are unusual and tragic and alive."
ReplyDelete-Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
ReplyDelete“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
ReplyDeleteTo me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
"'Things usually work out in the end.'
ReplyDelete'What if they don't?'
'That just means you haven't come to the end yet.'"
-Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
" And endings are always the beginnings of something else." -Holly Goldberg Sloane, Counting by 7's
ReplyDelete"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used."
ReplyDelete-John Green, Looking For Alaska
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."-Of Mice and Men
ReplyDelete“We don’t have to be defined by the things we did or didn’t do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it’s a regret, maybe it’s not. It’s
ReplyDeletemerely something that happened. Get over it.”
—Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to." J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
ReplyDelete"Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving"- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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ReplyDelete“For anyone who insists that taking one step forward and two steps backward will never get you anywhere , I protest: It will if you're walking backwards.”
ReplyDelete― George Watsky, How to Ruin Everything: Essays
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."
ReplyDelete-August Walters, The Fault in Our Stars
“ We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.“ lewis Carroll
ReplyDelete"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. -E.B White, Charlotte's Web
ReplyDelete“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
ReplyDeleteNeil Gaiman, Coraline
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ReplyDelete"It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one." Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
ReplyDelete" If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. " John Green, Looking For Alaska. My favorite book.
ReplyDelete“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
ReplyDelete― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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ReplyDelete"Pretending to be broken would be much harder, simply because it was in my nature to fight back.”
ReplyDelete― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors
“the great thing about this life is that you can be someone different to everybody “ -Jennifer Niven , All The Bright Places
ReplyDelete"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." -Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ReplyDelete"Every human being has a basic instinct: to help each other out. If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do."
ReplyDelete-Andy Weir,The Martian
"Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing"
ReplyDelete- R.J. Palacio, Wonder
"An ordinary archer practices until they get it right. A ranger practices until she never gets it wrong"
ReplyDelete-John Flanagan, Ranger's Aprentice
“God didn't give us minds to be able to understand everything. That's part of the mystery. Now, you can drive yourself crazy tryin' to understand something you were never meant to figure out down here, or you can just trust Him 'til He's ready to let you in on it. 'Til then, just enjoy the mystery.”
ReplyDelete-Renee Riva, Saving Sailor
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
ReplyDeleteClockwork Angel by
Cassandra Clare
"if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything" ~Alexander Hamilton
ReplyDelete"Time can play all sorts of tricks on you"
ReplyDeleteThe Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
ReplyDelete-Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll