Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
The past is obdurate.
The past doesn’t want to be changed.
The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
The crazy people of the world shouldn’t get to win. If God won’t make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.
The changes are never for the better. No matter how good your intentions are.
That’s the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.
Stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place.
Sometimes it’s just easier to go along.
Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end… and knowing there’s so much worth saving.
