Quick Quotes Round Two

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

Distracted by emotion, she was drying her eyes with a slice of bread.

– Trenton Lee Stewart, "The Mysterious Benedict Society”

[Maxim Trevelyan]

The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars!

--- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Beans have been sent out for the last prompt.

The first one for June is.....

Advice for graduating students

Such as....

All we need is a book.... don't panic, hit 'em with a book!

- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

[Maxim Trevelyan]

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

--- The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If we think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

– Ann Brashares, "Forever in Blue”

[Emerald Wolvenhowl]

you do something too good[, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good anymore.

J.D Salinger~The Catcher in the Rye.

[Aura Nightmoon]

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Our next prompt is....

Something that deserves applause

For example:

She ran out of her hiding place with the frying pan swinging like a bat. The screaming monster, leaping out of the water, met the frying pan coming the other way with a clang.

- The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett

[Maxim Trevelyan]

Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell Vasilisa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway was beyond cruel, and we’d—or rather, I’d—responded appropriately. I’d chucked my book at out teacher and called her a fascist b******. I hadn’t known what those words meant, but I’d known how to hit a moving target. Lissa and I had been inseparable ever since.

--- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

[Emerald Wolvenhowl]

We, the boys and masters of Charterhouse, salute George Leigh Mallory. You have honoured all carthusians by being chosen to lead the British assault on Everest.

Paths of Glory -
Jeffrey Archer

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

“My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died,” I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. “The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.”

– Naomi Novik, "Spinning Silver”

[Emily Spencer]

I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

From The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Beans awarded!

The final prompt for June is....

Words to live by

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

- Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

[Emily Spencer]

Just because your version of normal isn’t the same as someone else’s version doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with you.

From: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne