Leah Vernon > Leah's Quotes

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis