Lisa Van Allen
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The United States
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November 2012
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The Night Garden
13 editions
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2014
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Reader's Digest Select Editions Volume 6: Suspicion; Dog Gone, Back Soon; Wishing Thread; Without Warning
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“Lilies of the field did not threaten to uproot themselves if they didn't like where they were planted. On the slopes of the mountains, saplings struggled to grow in the shallowest puddles of soil that collected on bald rocks. Along the side of the valley's single road, chicory and yellow trefoil had learned to thrive in waste spaces, where passing cars blew exhaust against them all day long. Like Olivia, they had no say over where their seeds took hold: When they could not change their surroundings, they themselves had to change.”
― The Night Garden
― The Night Garden
“The good thing about problems is that it seems like there's only one way to get into them, but there's usually lots of ways out.”
― The Night Garden
― The Night Garden
“If you're reading this, there's been a death in the family (mine) and I'm sorry for your loss.”
― The Wishing Thread
― The Wishing Thread
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“there's this thing about rainbows. they're perfect from afar. but when you get real close to them, they just disappear.”
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“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."
--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
― A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
― A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

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