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“If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“And Maud bakes cookies, because when the darkness is too heavy to bear and too many things have been broken in too many ways to ever be fixed again, Maud doesn't know what weapon to use if one can't use dreams.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks.

"I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry