Kathryn Erskine quotes
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“Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.”
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“Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin
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“I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.86, Penguin
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“A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.”
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“I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.52, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2018). “Mockingbird”, p.149, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.28, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”
-- Kathryn ErskineSource : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin
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“Ignore and ignorance share the same root.”
-- Kathryn Erskine
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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Source : "Sometimes, you just gotta' shut down". Interview With Amy Green, www.salon.com. 1995.
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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Source : "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.
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